He seemed like a big-time agent who works with a lot of long-term investors.

Time spent as an investor or in activities not customarily done by an owner does not count towards the 500 hours.One thing to note is that if you are married, you can combine hours with your spouse's to meet this threshold.

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Then the person is soured on gambling on real estate and not around here to answer questions. 

And does the person doing the labor get paid or only the materials paid for by the partnership?

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Quote from @Sat Palshetkar: Hey,I'm a first time investor in real estate and my wife and I are planning to invest (with house hacking) in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

The investors can get back to whole, it’ll just take time.  

What I love about Baselane is that it was built BY real estate investors FOR real estate investors so it's really dialed in to what you're going to need in order to prepare your taxes, keep your books up to date and the more operational aspects of being an REI like tenant vetting and processing rent payments.

I don't have enough investor buddies around and my family would have zero interest.