As an agent, have you picked a focus yet or considered specializing/nicheing into being an "investor friendly" agent targeting investors to work with (over generic homebuyers)?

If it’s not too much money, though, it might be easier to just fix the issues and move on to your next deal.

Depreciation also is a huge benefit that you can keep going as long as you are investing in real estate.There's always ways to make your life easier without paying those pesky taxes.

Your earn it in this business and once you have some years in and your getting your business by referral like she does it does get easier at least on the marketing end she has not advertised in say 20 years all of her business just comes to her based on her quality of work with her clients. 2 years ago she was number one agent out of 600 HUNDRED agents and she does not have a team..

The first one can be overwhelming but it gets easier from there. 

-The niche, boutique brokerage is a great target because they are generally slammed with more business than they know what to do with, they generally are still using fax machines and rotary dialers, (i'm only half joking I still see @aol emails all over costar to this day) so it leaves ample opportunity with anyone that can use an crm a chance to add real value and grow the business in a measurable way.- These tend to be "assassin" type shops who are small teams of pretty elite operators, and they aren't bloated down with BS like the big CRBE's etc of the world, so you'll get exposed to more, you'll get exposed sooner, and they will generally be ideally with a niche industry or product type but will often have a ton of satellite deals they get which will get you cross industry exposure. 

     @Bob Gruenig, what @Chris Tracy may be trying to point out is that if you are creating a LLC and bringing in other passive investors into that LLC, your LLC may be subject to securities law.The easier option would be to let each individual come into the syndication's LLC directly. 

All good markets if you target the right tertiary area. 

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They both have their good and bad aspects… but rentals are far easier day in and day out.