I will for sure have an attorney representing my LLC when I get down to the nitty gritty, I just wanted to have a solid base before I’m influenced too greatly by just his opionions.

Your best bet with the MLS is to use brokers that have more experience getting listings and have more influence to help you.  

The only way to reduce risk when buying passively, is to know how each piece of your team or each piece of a Turnkey team operates and influences the next piece.You reduce risk by paying close attention to the location of the property.  

"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie5.

My first property will be, unless something changes, the duplex we're currently living in on a rent-to-own basis.Whenever I tell people what my wife and I want to do we either get verbal support or some cautionary tale.To those who have experience, what factors influence investment experience?

I dont care how good of a salesman or saleswoman you are your influences only go so far on the phone.

That still allots power and influence.2 & 3.

Having said that, in the Coventry Road, Superior Road, Mayfield Road triangle, because it has the cemetery on one side and the Forest Hill park on the other, it is somewhat isolated from East Cleveland and more influenced by Cleveland Heights.

Since there is so much positive influence here on the board regarding REI's, I'll give it a shot.

We probably could have controlled Sadaam, and we could absolutely influence control over to a new dictator today.