You can have the best housing units in the best locations, but if your tenants are poorly chosen or you don't know how to manage them properly you will lose money.3) If you ever intend on growing past 10 units, hire out the maintenance. 

@Todd Lukasik I’ve know of situations where assets are managed by a committee of family members strategically chosen for their skills and cool heads.

The price had been chosen because there was $20,000 worth of work needed to be done.

Sometimes that brother is the one who was chosen before hand to do just that, and the TV show just needed to add some spice with arguments.

Your kind of just pin pointing different details I have chosen to left out to make things more simple.

I just started my own brokerage too so I’m right there with you but I’ve chosen to stay solo right now as I’m not prepared to scale just yet.

We're all partners with the government whether you have chosen to be or not.They give us incentives that benefit us via the tax law to conduct ourselves a certain way that ultimately benefit them as well.Either learn the rules or get someone on your team who knows the rules.

And the title company chosen to handle the closing (or your realtors office) should hold the proceeds until closing. 

I would get the price from all the agents (they should land at something similar) and discuss the appraisal with the agent that you've chosen to go with to represent you. 

I have used many free trials of these programs, and they didn't seem to have the best data for my area.Plug in your chosen address to Google,  Redfin, Zillow, and others.