The last thing we want to do is make the house not pop from the street when we spent a lot of money on the inside, it's really the cherry on top.We use comps to decide how much to spend on the landscaping and how to style the landscape.

Every dollar spent on operating expenses reduces your potential income.

He paid for common area access, built a bed in his Land Cruiser, pocketed the rent but we had agreement on what the pocketed money could be spent on (seeing we were paying the rent). 

My own observation leads me to believe that a large part of the buyer agent’s time budget gets spent on showing houses and transportation to and from those houses.

Keep good accounting of your money and your time spent on the business.2.

If your fee is $150k I would expect a very healthy budget to be spent to marketing and advertising this property all over the place.  

My wife and I both have full time jobs, take care of our 2 boys and I have spent almost every day off for the last 8 mo working on this house.

He spent $500k more than what I believe was fair market value.

Just fyi, I kept encountering new investors (in my coaching business) who had seen/explored Section 8 Karim, so I spent some time on his website, etc., evaluating his claims.

Spent lots of time getting a Virginia lease ready and want to back off the mgr but wondering if I should just go with it.