My family just shakes their heads, but they have all enjoyed the benefits of my efforts – travel, college, funds to purchase homes and etc.

I agree with Shaun it's a shady practice.

An investor friendly agent can do all sorts of helpful things, like setting you up with a search for properties or connecting you with folks who have recently done deals like the ones you want to do. 6) Consider analyzing a deal or two in your local market, just for practice, with a free use of our Rental Property Calculator (or other calculators).

I've been house hacking for about 3 years now in the immediate Orlando area (Maitland, and College Park) and appreciation has been very good to me. 

There is widespread panic among first-time investors about LLCs when it's unnecessary and not practicable.

Licensable vacation rentals are obviously in high demand and offers can become quite competitive, I don't have any formal statistics but I'd say a quality active or eligible vacation rental sells at least twice as fast as a non STR property, the majority within days..My best advice to investors shopping for a hot or high demand asset class is:- Prepare & Practice: Get your ducks (GO UO!) 

If an incident occurred not caused by the tenant and the property is as practical matter totally unusable for residential purposes, the tenant may terminate the lease by giving notice to the landlord before repairs are completed.Failure to install, inspect or repair smoke alarmTexas law requires the landlord to install, inspect and repair smoke alarms prior to or at the beginning of the tenant’s lease.

Find Brandon's videos on YouTube for the "four square" method of analyzing homes and practice.

I'll take any advice I can get on contractors and and best practices on getting this project done.

We also train you on accounting and setup your account with all the best practices for a large property management business so you won't have issues in the future when growing your portfolio.Hope this info helps, keep the questions coming!