I have one townhouse renting and my investing is on hold until my custom house is finished being built.

I now consider this series of events to mark a defining period in my life.My employment background has always revolved around customer relations.

You'll probably want to go with a broker, most direct-to -customer insurance agencies deal more with SFRs.

.- Boutique Hotels (Gulf Coast tourist towns or in popular/historic neighborhoods such as New Orleans Garden District)- Convert older buildings into luxury apts (Happening in downtown Houston!)

Gastonia, NC has a few popular neighborhoods that are good for buying rentals built 2000 and newer with 4 bedrooms and 2.5 baths.

Did you have a custom laminate job?

@Sean Treston This is a popular topic in the forums so you can browse and find other posts for more advice.

As a Realtor, one would be working and spending time, gas and tolls showing properties and shooting emails/texts and the customer is not willing to sign a representation agreement and become a CLIENT.

In almost every case the bank will pay the property taxes because it will come before the 1st mortgage and stick around even after foreclosure.The listing agent needs to include the $70k as a HUD expense for the short sale, or call the Customer Service Department and request they pay off the taxes.The listing agent is probably misguiding their client, because the property tax is part of the short sale so the seller should not be accepting reponsibility for the tax lien just by accepting your offer.

I'll try VM options later to test whether there is really a difference, but I'm determined to go with a service at first (IOW, please don't tell me to use GV and send everything to VM ;)I''ve researched a bunch of different services, but actual recommendations from real customers in our business are hard to come by.So, if you've used an answering service to field calls for your business would care to share your experience (good or bad), I'd love to hear it.My plan is to have the AS collect very basic info at first, basically asking for name, contact info and the address of the property so that I can do some research and call them back ASAP.So what's the skinny on answering services?