While family and friends say that I should be satisfied, I’ve come to see that I am just another cog powering the machine for another’s wealth and success; moreover, I am replaceable.

I got a free-trial for Deal Machine as a very broke college student.

Although things did not go exactly to plan, I was happy with the ending and learned some lessons that helped us improve our process.Vil Nikollaj, Managing Partner, Realtor®EAC Group Investments

The landlord saw how we turned his underutilized rental into a money machine and illegally evicted us, renovated the house with our security deposit, and handed the keys to his basket weaving daughter. 

I've lived abroad for a decade and negotiating is a part of daily life; from buying vegetables at the market to a new washing machine.

Jason is right - competition is getting tough :-) I'm a Commercial/investment Realtor® but am also a GC/EC licenseholder for national commercial contractors.

I made this discussion so others could learn from your mistakes and people (myself included) would not make the exact same mistakes.So do you have any regrets that you made during your entire real estate career that you wished you could invent a time machine just to stop yourself from doing?

This is due to the unique state of our local market and economy, as well as widespread use by REALTORS® of tools like virtual open houses, remote notarizations and more,” the association said.

That's great, you have developed a system that works for you, my son-in-law in New York flips many properties nationwide, i guess I have  some credit to his success after taking my training in Baltimore - last conversation I had with him he had 150 properties under contract - he's created a machine that seems to be working.

Or an inspector on my personal house that said the hot and cold lines were crossed on our washing machine (they aren't).This is not to say there aren't good inspectors.