The reason you need to build your circle of influence and know people who might be selling is to build your reputation and trust, after that the problems solving is much easier.

And property values tend to influence many of the expenses associated with your property.

My sole advice I can offer to new home buyers like myself is if you feel rushed to make a deal on a home just stop walk away and seriously think about the decision in a quite place without any outside influences on your choice.

You can build a spreadsheet fairly quickly with a sensitivity analysis using Excel to see how the variance in the loan terms will influence your cash flow.

Joshsomething that may make linking to the profile easy for the folks who have some issues with links would be is if it could be done as a purl (personalized url)example Or tonyseverino.biggerpockets.comwww.Biggerpockets.com/tonyseverino Just a thought... we use purls in our postcard campaigns,,, traffic jumps when it is personalized.Has the Influence points been added for referrals yet?

The worst thing you can do is elevate all the Doubting Thomases in your midst to positions of influence.

If it is the tenants that might influence my decision.

I have a day job and its a PIA but it gets it done at the price I need it to.I use every ounce of influence I have to get low prices and quality that I need.

If it's true that we are the average of the five (5) people closest to us, then we must find regularly meet with those who will influence us positively and directly. 

Keep in mind, RECA, the Real Estate Council of Alberta, has recently upgraded all of the rules regulating the realtors, and they have become quite strict with disclosures, being careful not to exercise undue power and influence over a seller if you're licenced, etc.This course has proved to be more exciting than I expected, however.