This is a rare opportunity to find pure arbitrage where you have no price risk an risk none of your actual capital because I'm also buy and selling simultaneously.If your unfamiliar with the concept read here http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/pdfiles/invph...A lot of opportunity in financial markets also exists even not trading between exchanges chasing price variances. 

Pure RE companies usually operate at 1.60 debt equity leverage ratio, which corresponds to to a constant LTV of 60%.Another topic I see emerging here is the flight for yield.

So purely out of curiosity, my question is: what impact, if any, have brokers and real estate agents seen Homie have thus far on the RE market?

is it deemed to be purely passive or can it be offset against losses from real estate income?

Based on pure assumptions on my part:Your wife is not working hard enough to find a job, she has plenty of options she is not considering.Your wife is your biggest problem in your life.

Unless you are into pure speculation, you buy for cash flow and hope for appreciation.The issue with the sole mantra of "cash flow is king" is that buying a 40k house that cash flows $200/month but will still be worth 40k , 10 years from now, then that "cash flow" isn't really as good as you think it is.You do have to consider your exit strategy....... you may think you will hold it forever but sometimes other things come up and you need to offload a property or two and all that "cash flow" is lost when you sell it at the same price you bought it 5 years, minus the work to get it ready for sale and the commissions etc etc...Appreciation is only useful if you sell at the right time and use the $$ in the right way, or 1031 it into something even better, or leverage it....otherwise its dead money..

It's not your decision to filter our requests you don't agree with.There are many reasons closing gets delayed and it happens a lot, however if the reason was purely because the buyer did not do what they were supposed to do in timely manner, then i think its absolutely reasonable to ask the buyer.

That's almost 300 hours of pure educational gold.

One is a business, the other is purely an investment that is NOT a business. 

He teaches that buying real estate purely for appreciation is gambling and should instead be viewed as the icing on the cake.I invest in Ohio :)