@John Light That's very street smart!

If the agent get's 100% of the commission there's no way for the brokerage to keep its lights on without them.

I'll be able to shed additional light on the situation once I better understand the perceived risks you are looking to protect against and better understand the duplex. 

Someone I met while visiting runs a construction crew up there so was wondering if anyone could shed some light on the market up there and what they are seeing.

Question: in the Detroit Market, what are green lights, yellow lights and no go zones? 

Then figure out the time and energy you can commit to investing and other life priorities to be.

Having such commanding knowledge, that stack of 84 pages is just a light read and simple navigation.

Despite current unemployment rates maintaining below 5%, the recent rise from 3.8% to 4.2%(recently revised to 4.1%) is significant, especially when considering wage growth adjusted for inflation.Over the last few years, the median household income has dropped by 7.2% when adjusted for inflation (and this isn't even considering volatile food and energy prices), a troubling trend given that inflation has outstripped income growth.

@Steven Mendiola admire your gungho attitude, be sure to temper it a bit with reality, but don't lose you energy - it can help you recover from a lot of mistakes!

These people are so nice that they are still helping you even though most of your responses are just overglamorizing them or profusely thanking them because they didn't ask you any questions.The other problem is people who tell you how bad they feel for you because other people didn't light a scented candle for your two-line post and spend an hour of their own time trying to help you when you have a new profile, with new photo, and no information.You lucked out with some nice people in here @Scott Meech, but it's because of them that you have information not because you brought anything to the table other than a hand out.