You'll need proper insurance, structure your business properly to protect yourself from liability, furnishings, cleaner contacts, maintenance contacts, and a lot of business and technological sense.

I am looking for a brokerage that will provide support from a technology/agent personal website point of view but still won't take ~40% of your commission.

Others see this as a typical deal.There are many ways the sponsor can take their cut of the deal, and you have named the typical ones.The difficulty is making it work with a very small deal.  

New technology has made it incredibly easy to invest out of state and out of country.

I am very excited that my wife and I have now been able to acquire our first and are very eager to learn as much as possible over this next year with the difficulties of property management.

They tried loan modification but are having financial difficulties and her husband lost his job.  

Keep in mind the counter is not really a counter but more of an invitation to re bid for the next day- Use an agent that has closed many HUD homes as there can be difficulty with financed properties, selecting a title company and such- Finally, new asset managers have taken over in the last month or so in most regions(Sage Acquisitions) and based on what I have seen during this time your bid of 90K has no shot. 

I'm Justin I work at presale engineer for business company for 12 years, I want to work without a traditional employer’s workspace, well, works for me on many levels-flexibility, autonomy, and not having to ask anyone permission to take a break to walk my dog– are a few that come to mind.I don't have experience in real estate business so I have experience selling technology solution. so i'm tired to be full-time employedRegards, Justin

You do have to look careful at your comps and time on the market, as well as calculate your holding costs to see if it makes sense for you.The mayor and his staff are working hard at getting the City of LA up to speed with technology, which is NOT an easy task considering the very old computer systems running in all 80+ departments and sub-departments in this city.

Hello BP, so i'm getting some difficulty when talking to an insurance agent because so far all of them are pretty clueless in helping me.