Basic staging with an agent usually means they give you insight into how you should:Declutter and depersonalize by removing photos and personal itemsArrange your furniture to improve the room’s flow and make it feel biggerAdd plants, move art, or re-arrange other accessoriesFull-service staging is another option if your house needs more hands-on attention.

Basically just venting with this post, but if anyone has any advice that would help, I'm all ears. 

@Zach Howard the basics of the Rental Purchase Calculator is easy to understand and replicate.Google and you can find many similar spreadsheets for free.

I am a beginner in this and I would like what basics questions should I check before getting into this business.

My daughter is an Agent in Vegas I suspect they are going to get a lot of overflow as well since there is no income tax there and prop taxs are basically the lowest in the nation.. my mid term rental I have there has routinely been leased out to insurance companies paying for their clients that had a fire .. or this last one they were building a new personal residence that took over a year. 

Each area has its own rules on how it works, but basically, you buy the house, pay a deposit and agree to rehab the house within a certain amount of time.

Hi michaelI've been using orign8 at $250/month and they have a lot more to offer like lead gen, automation, missed call text back, basically an all-in-one inside sales marketer. but I don't know if it's available in your area. 

You also seem to have based your view of syndications on a sample size of 2 good outliers and based your disdain for direct ownership on a sample size of 2 bad outliers, and when someone brought that up, you basically said that you don't mind losing money as long as you spent no time losing it.The type of person that can lose 50k and be mad "for two days" and thinks that productivity has been lost if he spends a few little hours looking over a deal that could ultimately make more money than many people make in a year is a person that most cannot relate to.

 - prop 13 basically fixes the property tax.  

Right now I see they have 30% on the basic package, 40% on the Deluxe, and 50% Premium.