With online sales and focused brand building, companies like Mercedes can forge a direct relationship with their customers.

Establishing a lender relationship now can be beneficial for future growth.

This approach allows for more flexibility in managing tenant relationships.

I understand that being an agent is a relationship based business, and so my concern as the buyers agent is that the sellers agent wont give me any of those "There are multiple offers but if you raise the price by $50k its yours..." wink wink nudge nudge type pieces of information in the future because they'd rather go with an agent that isn't going to help the buyer nickle and dime their seller.Thank you,YoavSan Francisco, CA

The cost of the failed eviction, tenant relationship issues, and subsequent need to hire a competent PM to do the work the old PM was unable to do. 

No, I have not seen anyone pull this off.Additionally, many lenders want no part in this because if the relationship between the two (or more) veterans goes south, then the loan is in trouble.However, I have 2 lenders that confirm they actually do these, but do so few and far between.

We also do this because it's a reasonable thing to do and helps maintain a good landlord-tenant relationship, which often results in longer tenancies.

You can also use apps like Turnover BnB to find and manage your relationships with cleaners.

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If you are familiar with Syndications, that is the type of structure that requires an "existing and substantial relationship" with investors BEFORE soliciting them.