They aren't Realtors, they aren't hanging out on your local real estate brokerage.

In one unit I found 7 of those cables meeting in an unenclosed junction in the middle of a ceiling hanging on a still pressurized gas line.

Get your “unofficial board of advisors” together and hang out with those whose mindsets are where you want to be.

The tree is on my property and some of the branches hang out on to the street.

If you sell them an option to buy within a 5 year window, you would have a hard time selling within those 5 years because of that option hanging out there, unless you sell at a discount. 

So after costs, we could make $100,000 if we flip it.Would you hang on to it or flip and use the profit to have a bigger down payment for another property?

They gave me a pass to the on site washers and dryers for the weekend, as much as I wanted to wash, and yep, I still had to wash and fold and hang. 

Keep in mind you will have to hang your license with someone else and theoretically run the management fees through them.

This can be a good one to hang on to heirs.

After I got the hang of it and spent more time on BP, I did provide input on how to make some of the listings more appealing to potential tenants. - I was able to spend my time doing other things.As others are saying, it's typically a commission of the first month's rent.