Then think about writing off your cellphone, your internet, you car, your home office, your tax prep, etc etc etc.  

Building out the systems to continue to track inputs is exciting. 

Renegotiating some utility contracts (garbage and removing some on site office paid internet/phone bills) 5.

The terms of service still apply and the risks of losing the listings are still there.A 'brand" isn't anything other than a name attached to a person or a system or a process.

While sophistication of your equity partners (private money lenders) will vary between residential and commercial, the principle of raising private capital is the same.You need to develop your own system which allows a constant stream of PML even when you don't need the funds and/or don't have an active deal under contract.For example; I raise private capital by offering free educational workshops for people with self-directed IRAs.

A tenant doesn't qualify for a S8 voucher by making good financial and life decisions, so what quality of people do you think the system is dealing with?

If you want to scale then you’ll need systems and processes so that you don’t feel so overwhelmed.

You need a solid proven system to find the deals.  

•Integrate a system to rate property conditions using AI/ML models.

I am guessing that the vast majority of homes 10+ years old had some sort of water damage at some point, most had probably several.My own home is only a few years old and we had the washer spring a leak and a few years later the RO system in the kitchen started leaking into the cabinet.Seller disclosures are pretty useless in my opinion.