@Lance Johnson - Do you have an agent in each area?  

Not as many complexities with a few rentals, but there can still be significant issues depending on entity structure - even if they are all "disregarded" entities for federal tax purposes.If your W-2 is your full time gig, and they are all passive long term rentals, there very well could be likely not a lot of active planning to do on the real estate side, outside of getting some general knowledge out there, having some longer term plans, and ensure deductions are being maximized in the isolation of those 5 rentals.

I am a real estate agent in the process of finding my first real estate rental deal.

I noticed several real estate agents post a reply on this forum.

I happened to be away for a wedding out of state, so i had my Agent and Contractor walk through it together. 

My idea is that this 2024, I fly to Japan, build a community of investors and leverage existing networks of contractors, real estate agents (called brokers there), and start buying, rebuilding, and renting/airbnb units as a business.

Hi my name is Gerald and I want to get in touch was a licensed real estate agent in Arizona who has experience finding rental properties for investors and who also is a real estate investor themselves.

So, have the mortgage note signed by the person whose credit I checked who is an agent (owner?)

@Geoff StuhrI am a real estate agent and investor in Dallas, TX.Happy to connect and share my knowledge and experience.Join local real estate investment clubs.Get in touch with a local agent or investor and shorten your learning curve and save you a lot of headaches as they tend to understand the market better.All the best!

Even though other real estate agents mentioned that they did, they didn't have it as an option.