Both my husband and I have been unable to find full-time work or even work in our fields. 

I have a strong background in finance graduating with an MBA from Dayton and 7 years of experience, but I am starting a new career path in real estate.

It seems like if it's a sellers market, low supply and high demand, the ball is really in their field (or sand box).

Best of luck with your new real estate career!

I want to pursue an investing career in wholesaling and rental properties.  

BNI has been a big help in my other business and BNI is heavily saturated with real estate professionals and other related fields (commercial lenders to landscaping to roofers, etc.)  

I currently own a few rentals in different states, but since getting my real estate license i have started looking at family and friends for prospecting new deals as a new agent.I have a family member who has been renting houses for as long as i can remember between her and her boyfriend, but they both have some bad credit due to falling behind a few years back after both losing their jobs and juggling life for a while tell they found new jobs.I am a bit unsure about this idea still due to the fact that i have been running numbers on multi-family homes to purchase in the near future and turn into rentals, but i want to help them if it's a viable idea...I wanted to get your opinion on maybe purchasing a house based on their needs and running a lease option on the house for them to purchase down the road when they have the credit again....Right now they are renting a 3/1/1 for $1200/month and there is a lot of 3bed houses around them that are in the 100k and below that would meet the needs of them, im just worried about buying the house for them tieing up my own money and not have enough financing available to continue purchasing investment properties as my rental income from all my current rentals is my only income coming in right now as i start the career of an agent.

Basically this career politician who knows nothing about business is doing away with almost all of the incentives for Ma and Pa investors to provide housing at a time when the country is in dire need of more housing...SMH these are not "loopholes" they are incentives to provide housing.

Commissions due to agents are how we make a living it is how we survive and support our family if you can't comprehend that then you should pick another hobby, career, or see it for what it is and stop beating agents up over it.

Below are the tools I've used as well as others I've looked into:Message AutomationThe tool I'm using is http://yourporter.comI currently have it set up to automate the following via AirBnB message and email:Inquiry response if I don't reply within 2 hoursVerification message immediately upon bookingCheck in instructions two days before a stayHow are you doing message one day after check-inCheck-out instructions the day before check-outLarge Group message to tell people to keep it down after 10PM for any reservations of 6+ peopleIt allows you to insert fields into the message such as guest's names and check-in dates that it populates into the message for you so it doesn't seem like a robot sent the message.yourporter can automate messages via AirBnB, email and SMSCost is $5/mo/listingI'm also using http://avivaIQ.com which is currently in beta and FREE and also does message automation but only through AirBnB's messenger.