And nor would I ask will without having success in the realm of RE.

I have an inspection tomorrow on what is hopefully the first rental of my RE investing career.

For example, if your deal is good enough to visit it is probably good enough to absorb the costs of a few visits regardless of whether or not you could expense it, otherwise your entire deal is pretty vulnerable to even the slightest of variances.

I am looking for an online RE Agent pre-license course for the state of Florida (63 hour state approved course).

Real Estate investing in Canada-Your Life Your Terms show-Lifestyle Housing Radio (if you can endure the intro song)That should provide more education than you can absorb in a year!

I have a new HELOC now, 10 years later with a different bank at 4.05%, used for RE down payments and I mitigate this reality in two ways. 

FHA insured loans that are foreclosed on become HUD homes and are sold through HUD and their vendor(s).https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/housing/sfh/re...

As the title describes, I am in search of an investor-friendly RE agent in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area.

I am interested in multi-family homes to "house hack" as my first RE investment.

That's WAY more expensive.There are real damages here, however:Holding costs during the period under contractTime costs for work put into contractA possible future price reduction on upcoming offers after the property is re-listedI believe it's far better to find an amicable deduction from the earnest money based on those above items.