The agent's Broker In Charge (or equivalent in your area) gets a "cut" of each deal.

It can happen, but it is, literally, equivalent to sitting down at a blackjack table and winning hand after hand.

My roofer uses ice shield on the roofs, don't know if there is an equivalent product for the siding.If it ever quits raining, we plan to do exterior painting of 10 or more properties, about half of them two storied.

We plan on living in this house for 3 years and then buy another home since about that time she will be done paying for student loads.Question:If my father and I both put up the down payment, my wife and I pay rent equivalent to other similar homes in the neighborhood and then move out after three years (keeping the home as a rental in a joint portfolio with my father).

In Lombard I tend to see mostly older homes, without a lot of the rehab/tear-downs that are seen in other western burbs with equivalent pricing.  

Easiest plan: administrator deed (or equivalent) to Mom and Deed of Trust (or mortgage) from Mom to Uncle (securing Note for amount due to a uncle).

A couple of cap ex events occur in year 10 that eat up the equivalent of several years’ worth of profit.

If that's the problem, use CLR or LimeAway (or the dollar-store equivalent) to clean the aerator.The shower drips because of a bad o-ring or other seal in the valve. 

So that is the equivalent of a 20 unit multi-family.

There is probably some equivalent where you are.Mecklenburg County Register of Deeds Web Access: http://meckrod.manatron.com/RealEstate/SearchEntry.aspx