As she said in the podcast, running one you become a parent, therapist, dealmaker, it's time-consuming.

And to be diligent investors we want to be sure that we examine how quickly things may revert to the time pre-Covid when house prices had a very modest yearly incline. 

If you are becoming a real estate broker just to invest, that can be a time consuming and expensive way to go about it.

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There is a lot of managing of seasonal workers which is very challenging and time consuming. 

Purchase price was 319K and the current value I mentioned of 450K is a modest minimum, though the market is awfully frothy right now. 

I noticed this podcast in the news the other day... https://www.bizjournals.com/au... and objectively speaking as a consumer who seeks to find true value, is it worth more to go with a Full-Service Realtor who is incentivized to find the best deals for their customer or; to go with a business model which emphasizes quantity over quality, potentially leaving $ on the table as well as lack of personalization?

The negative position consumes the initial cash flow; sometimes it consumes years of cash flow to recover the negative position.In most markets, ADU additions are not typically value adds.  

I’ve been experimenting with the same modest bump and adding an addendum that the tenant agrees that a steam cleaning of carpets and professional deep clean will automatically be charged to the security upon exit.Less painful for them then coming up with the money, usually (!)

And often the “investors” we speak to haven’t brought us business to warrant being the first call when we stumble upon one.Second - consumers tend to be far more flaky than agents.