The second home came up on MLS through automatic feed from my realtor. 

I love that I can just post squeeze pages of properties or general home searches for my area to social and when people click on them and put in any information it automatically adds them to my list of leads and sets up a follow up campaign and will periodically send them emails/texts without me doing a single thing other than making a Facebook post.

Time is of the Essence" is a legal term you DO NOT want in your contract to purchase (use it only when you are selling) - you don't want the pressure to close and the right to extend.You need to build in an automatic extension in your offer rather than asking for an extension when you need it.Understanding delayed settlement language is important - you need all the time you can bargain for in the beginning of your contract negotiations - because nothing closes on time - you don't want to lose your deal because you ran out of contract time.Make full disclosures to your building owner - they need to know that you are really not going to buy (if you are flipping) their building - the seller needs to understand and be cooperative with you - create NO surprises and you will profit.Consider a Hybrid offer - this is one where the seller gets a percentage of you profits - this creates cooperation of the sellerAlways ask for seller financing - try first for a "Principal Mortgage" this is one without interest, make sure it is fully assumable without qualification in the event you assign your deal you can assign your seller take back, so if you have a NO INTEREST loan from the seller - you can assign your mortgage and add interest. 

This is what it states:The covenants, conditions, and restrictions of this Declaration shall run with and bind the land, and shall inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable by, Declarant, the owner of any lot, and their respective legal representatives, heirs, successors and assigns, and, unless amended as provided herein, shall be effective for a term of twenty (20) years from this date, after which time said shall be automatically extended for successive period of ten (10) years.

(you do automatic annual rent increases right)The thing that few landlords seem to not understand is that a term lease has next to no bearing on when a tenant will choose to leave.

They see our city as the next great start-up hub, especially with regard to advanced robotics, thanks in huge part to Carnegie Mellon University.

I use Everlance to track mileage automatically which saves me a lot of paperwork.

Simply owning a rental and reporting it on Schedule E does NOT automatically qualify it as a "trade or business" and consequently does NOT open it to 20% deduction.

I can do ach, it automatically does receipts to my tenants, I can do background checks, I keep the signed lease and any information for the tenant in the program, at tax time it’s really easy to submit everything to my accountant… It has been a really helpful tool.

But this is easier said that done, you dont get to rub shoulders with the whales just like that.Whales can deploy 0.05% of their total buying power and make the stock price move up a couple of dollars , similarly they can sell the same and make the stock drop a couple of dollars and wipe out millions of average joe investors cash , they invest small amount but represent the largest subset of the retail investors .Whales can do this because their order size is so big,trade speed is ultra fast and robotic it is chump change to them .They can deploy this strategy while sippin on bacardi on a beach-Read This is very different to the path average joe is currently on and possibly not possible to embark upon because it is a select club ,and joe is not invited!