If you are BUYING a realtor might make sense if: - You're out of the area-You're uncomfortable negotiating -They have more experience in what to look for. 

In today's world, I'm taking the $10B every time with the knowledge that nobody can force me into a risk factor I am uncomfortable with.

Ex: selling furniture will at least get you used to uncomfortable conversations with rude customers.

I wouldn’t expect them to maintain it like clearing the food trap or checking the integrity of the seal so perhaps make that part of your routine maintenance to extend the useful life of it.

Open all of them the other months.This is old school thinking and pretty much wrong by today's standards.Humidity in the South will routinely be 80+% all summer.

Jason Hartman says routinely in his podcasts, "Even if you get HALF of the promised ROI, it's good."  

. $150 is petty cash or a drop in the bucket that´s part of my basic routine expenses.

As Christian mentioned, this extra time during quarantine was a needed push to get out of the regular routine.

At least the one's I connect with routinely they have never told me they were intimidated or belittled.

Now I pretty routinely originate them myself but the minimum loan size is $75,000 (minimum $100k value and you cannot blanket properties to meet the minimum).