It’s exciting and nerve racking but once you get your first deal done you’re confidence and skills will grow and you’ll be well on your way.  

We are renovating a home in the Catskills and stuck on what railing to install on our outdoor deck—cable or metal.  We plan to use the home for short-term rentals—so safety is important.  We might sell if the rental m...

We do need to polish up on our sailing skills though, we're not quite as skilled as our friends, but we could probably get there. 

Properties never perform the way you think they will and on the rare occasion you actually profit, it's pure luck, not skill.

Public maybe has an impression of their skills sets that is inflated to reality of what their background is or their Actual experience..

As a skilled negotiator, listen attentively and ask the right questions.

They key differentiator here is their English skills since you also want them to make calls, that's the first thing you need to focus on. 

If Airbnb is an option for your spare bedroom then that's great, personally when I first started I didn't want to have to deal with the in and outs of people and also making my place aesthetic enough that it would rank well on Airbnb so I went straight to long term rentals but if you want to dip your toe in the water it could be a good option if shorter term tenants make you more comfortable. 

That sentence makes me question their drafting skills.

I wouldn't trust them to make the payments, especially if the property value goes down and they have a bum tenant not paying rent because they mis-managed it and had poor underwriting skills to begin with and realize they messed up and just walk away (what makes it attractive to them if it's not attractive to you?).