They now wanted me hire a mold examiner.  

--by the time escrow closed, I was a landlord.imho, Robinson handles the human side of landlording well (along with technical and legal issues), while Nolo is the gold standard for in-depth, up-to-date legal stuff.Meanwhile, do get your head examined.

You need to examine the details of your comparables to determine what the potential ARV is:Are the comparables all in the same city or village Sometimes using the radius for comparison results in spillover from another city or village into the comparables.  

I also think it would be pretty nerve-racking to take that money with that guaranteed return and gamble it on the uncertain.

A list of approved establishments can be found on the Department’s website; (this educational requirement is in addition to the 45 hour sales pre-licensing classroom hours)Upon successfully passing the examination, candidates must submit the following...Real estate salespersons and brokers both fall under the purview/regulation of the RI Department of Business Regulation ("DBR"): http://www.dbr.state.ri.us/divisions/commlicensing...As a practical matter, I would strongly recommend taking the first option, being a salesperson for two years before applying to become a broker.

When I told those tenants I wasn't their mommy or daddy, one had enough nerve during her lease renewal to try and tell me that I was verbally bashing her when I said that.My response was: "I am the captain of this ship.

I put in a search criteria for absentee owners and when I examined my list closer the property address and mailing address were the same.  

One other thing to add to that would be an examination of your liability position.  

When the HDs were examined, the entire capacity held the contents of pages feed into that machine (have to store to enable inhaling the users work at full speed and deliver on best effort). 

The first time that this came up as an issue, I asked the title company to provide me the abstract for my own examination.