@Andrew Steffens has a good finger on the pulse in that area, so give him a call.Make sure you get the STR insurance quote into the mix when doing your calculations.

We started taking the Houston phone book which was huge and by category and just flip pages and put our finger down without looking for a selection. 

Figures Google would stick their fingers in this pie eventually.

Still waiting on the organic leads to come in, fingers crossed that will happen as you said within the next month or two.  

The cash-out refi necessarily means thousands of dollars in additional expenses - likely setting you back further than you went forward in mortgage pay down during the same time period if refinancing in 1-2 years - but hopefully earning more equity in the meantime (fingers crossed).  

The value add will be in the operations as the current owner(s) haven't kept their fingers on the pulse to run it at it's peak.

It's too easy for the crooks at RW to point the finger at others and say We had nothing to do with it.

At this point, I can only cross my fingers and hope the government doesn't have enough resources to investigate all of the wrongly filed BOIRs.

So once again it’s off-line and I have guest that just checked in and I’m keeping my fingers crossed that they can hang in there until I get home in two days.

I was doing a lot of legwork and still paying RE agent for the transactions up until got my own license.pros: no commissions in your transactionseasier qualification as real estate professional to offset high W2 of spousecan get access to any house/ easy logisticsmore control in the transactionMLS access with all the information on tip of your fingers, you can move fast with the deallicense knowledge helps to make better decisions and gives broader understanding of the industrycan legally do property management for others, wholesale (many states now making outlaw to do it without license)cons:need to take an exam (it needs preparation and to be good not just barely pass you need to study)fees you pay along the way (MLS, brokerage(I signed with investor-focused on and have a monthly fee and a transaction rate))self-management including taxes and feesneed to relicense + paid education