Most flat fee listings are willing to work with a buyer's agent and pay the buyer's agent commission.

A tip is voluntary, so your tenant could agree up front, then refuse to pay.

Depends on what you have to pay for your money, may not be worth it.

Owner ended up settling with the tenant, but then we had to threaten to sue our own client to get them to pay our legal fees.- Owner must sign a Hold Harmless to indemnify us against any potential tenant lawsuits relating to the work their contractor is doing.--- Another lawsuit resulted from owner's contractor taking down basement handrail to get supplies down the steps, then they didn't put it back and tenant fell down the stairs.- We also negotiate a reasonable completion date, depending on the Scope Of Work (SOW). --- Who gets all the phone calls and wastes time calming a tenant down because the owner's contractor doesn't show up as scheduled after they took time off from work or a 3 day job takes 3 weeks?

i would:-get the highest paying W2 job you can-save up enough to buy a house hack-house hackwhile you continue to learn and consider the other possibilities you mentioned.

In addtion when the net investment property is ready or on the ARV you can do the same thing pull cash out and pay off the original amount and use the rest for another down payment.

Took my friend/fellow CNY investor 6-9 months to get a non-paying tenant out.

If your intention is to invest in a turn, and increase rents that much, the tenant in place will most likely not be able to pay the increase.

Airbnb came out with a new co-host option where you could get paid for your services to assist owners by selecting % of rents...maybe have him pay you 99.9%?

That way I can use it when I need it and pay it down when I don't.