On the brokerage side, if you can educate clients on their options and ability to use the state VA loan in addition to the federal, you’ll be light years ahead of other folks.

@Greg Parker Do you not require that of the tenants in the lease, similar to light bulbs, smoke detector batteries etc...?

To add to this thread, you can also lightly knock off the popcorn with a drywall knife, leaving behind the carrier, and lightly sand the ceiling, then prime and paint.

You spend one day doing some touch up painting and light repairs and 9 days going to Disney World. 

I imagine a fair bit with the high touch nature of the many transactions.

You just need to determine what your real estate goals are and look at this in light of those goals.

Using your RRSP FTHBP should not be taken lightly.

Had another offer for work and took it; got to travel throughout the United States and Canada performing photometric inspection of airfield lighting equipment at airports.

I do these all of the time- if this is a rental, middle class sort of area; paint the cabinets, new hardware, new lighting, new appliances, resurface the counters and new flooring and all of the sudden it will look like a million bucks. 

I knew it would cost money to generate leads but I was unsure how much to expect to pay for broker fees and things of that nature.