So if you need advise or to talk about how to potentially obtain cash let me know.

After a month I had both sides rented at $650.00 and it was cash flowing great.

Could be a form of equity you could bring to the table in partnering - in addition to cash you could throw in your purchase / sales commission as a form of equity in the deal.

In the ideal scenario, we picture keeping the property as a cash flowing asset forever and letting our kids deal with it after we die.BUT, if that doesn't happen, and we decide to sell in 7 years or 10 years, I'm going to kick myself for losing out on the capital gains tax exclusion of $500k.  

(FYI- I don't have a ton of cash laying around and will be getting a loan on this.)Thanks to everyone who chimes in. 

I'm heartbroken, and if my story can spare anyone else from this pain, it's worth sharing.

Would doing a cash out refinance first to purchase next property hurt the process in anyway?

PMs will of course come at cost but a good one is totally worth it.Let me know if I can help, good luck!

Worth $120 to $140k.

Than this thing about the exclusive buyer agreement to me is great, and I don’t just say that from an agents prospective, people should be able to see in plain terms what services that can expect for what price and decide if that service is worth that to them, just like every other business, problem before is because seller was paying for buyers services it was opaque, now it will be written out in plain terms for everyone to see, the main result of this lawsuit was to put agents more in line with every other service business in America and increase the number of options for consumers, some agents might be paid more some will definitely get less, I think overall average commission’s come down, but again that’s how every other business operates people compete on price compete on service compete on relationships (I can get a better price with some subs because I’m a repeat customer who pays on time and is easy to deal with for instance) and than consumers can decide who that want to go with and once they decide to have that person working for them of course that person deserves to get paid for the time they put in.