I'm done investing in new properties for a while, though one approach that seems like a winner is, look which currently "off" areas are undergoing gentrification, which you can see by tracking where the trendy bars flow.

Since it sounds like there's plenty of fat on this deal, I would say do what she asks and do it right.

Without an Exclusive Buyer's Agent Agreement, I'd say that realtor is out like the fat kid in 5th grade dodge ball!

I am presently undergoing the real estate license training education again so I can sit for the exam. 

The old chicks, fat chicks, and ugly chicks will say that it ain't so, but they are wrong.

The sellers agent should run this buy their clients...you get a read on things, but you don't waste time and resources by undergoing the formal offer process...

I also have about 100 rental properties that are on short term payoffs (5-7 year mortgages) and a free and clear commercial building in a crazy hot downtown area that has been undergoing a major revitalization for the last several years.  

They live there for the full year however, they have multiple other families/persons living there that you were never aware of that would in no way ever pass your screening test and put a horrible amount of excessive wear and tear on your property and you are none the wiser and because you are sitting on a fat pile of cash, you are happy, while your house is falling apart under your nose.

If they had Roth IRAs back then, I'd be in fat city now. 

I am trying to rent my house for the first time and I hired a realtor to advertise and show my house and screen renters. A couple (with three children) would like to move in, but the wife stated that she would be the ...