The unlicensed assistant may exercise no discretion over the language used to complete the blanks on a rental agreement, but may only write words dictated by the property owner, designated broker, or managing broker.Provide information about rental units, leases, lease applications, security deposits, and rental amounts to prospective tenants.Assist in property management functions by carrying out administrative, clerical, financial, or maintenance tasks.Unlicensed assistants may NOT…Advertise that they are engaged in the property management business.Hold trust funds.

As part of its Open Data Portal, the City of Austin has made available a searchable database of building permits in the city.

If something else, exchange engineering for business administration or something else that you can apply more directly to real estate.Just my two cents, hope no one else here take it personally regarding their education background and the fan book thing... 

I'm thinking I will major in interior design and have 2 minors in business administration and art (as a hobby/ side business).

It states "If the investor takes possession on the earliest possible date--the date it receives the tax certificate, five days after the auction--then the administrative redemption period and the judicial redemption period will both burn off at the same time. " If the last taxes were paid for the 2012 tax year by the owner, the state bought it in 2014, then I bought it in April 2016, and took immediate possession.

And back to the original topic: BP is a HOTSPOT of illegal activitieshttps://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/45...See the scammer CLAIMING to be licensed.They got a little upset when I pointed out they don't show up in the state database of licensees.They changed their profile from samuel roth to samuel r and then hid itI was kind enough to guide them that all advertisements by a licensee must have that licensees name and the name of the brokerage they hang their license with but a quick check of their ads reveals no such change...They are advertising properties they do not own in violation of state law....helping sustain the "hotspot of illegal activities" as the state investigator phrased it:)Of course, we can revert back to Bill Gulley's term...and simply refer to these frauds and scammers as a public nuisance:)

One thing to keep in mind is that our school system is having a massive amount of turnover at the administrator level and it's a magnet school program so children don't always go to the closest schools.

The payee (PM)  can record my data in their database before passing my data to the bank because I am still in their web site when entering my bank data.

(b) A depository institution; subsidiaries that are owned and controlled by a depository institution and regulated by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, the National Credit Union Administration, or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; or institutions regulated by the Farm Credit Administration.

If you search here you will find several threads discussing renting flats versus renting by the room.There are pros and cons to both, but in a nut shell, renting units is easier administratively: one lease, no housemate drama, tenants carry bulk of utilities.Renting by the room can bring in more revenue, but in that instance each tenant has a relationship with you and not necessarily with each other.