I thought the Dallas REI expo was excellent and will continue to attend every year.

I myself am an iphone guy but recently purchased a Microsoft surface which I find to be very helpful because I use excel and onenote quite a bit.

If you and the contractor don't 'click', no matter what their cost or how stellar their references, working with the contractor will feel like pulling teeth (unless all the references specifically state "great work product, but terrible to work with").My company will win contracts, not because we are the cheapest, but because we are able to work with clients on a human level.

Sellers with motivation but no equity are excellent listing candidates.

After 3 hours of slow tapping on an iPad in a hotel room, I built my first excel deal analysis.

If you're going to do lead generation using direct mail for example, then you'll spend a lot of time twiddling your thumbs at the office while it's in production and being sent.

They make a name for themselves as experts in their filed and then sell that image to unsuspecting fools who pay thousands for their products.

Great list - one thing you might want to consider adding is comping propertiesA lot of us use excel spreadsheets that VAs can easily use to fill out for each property (listing all pertinent info from how many beds/bath to what was recently sold in the area)Another one would be managing craigslist postings (tracking posts/responses or putting up new posts)

It is in an excellent location (in the heart of DC) and will reduce my daily commute time by approximately 1.5 hrs.

Excellent work @Mark Ferguson .