It's not easy to manage everything remotely without boots on the ground especially when dealing with real estate @Drew Herzog

(OR in another view point, real estate values stayed the same, and the dollar keeps losing value). 

On some occasions, I just take a simple contract to a local escrow office and do it myself.Basically, everything in real estate is negotiable.

My question is, how do you guys typically evaluate real estate agent performance?

Syndicators who brag about their instagram lifestyles without a big old pile of exits... probably bought that lifestyle with their investor's money, whether Ponzi scheme or exorbitant acquisition/management fees.That... or selling high ticket coaching items on the power of real estate.

Closing the top floor vents in winter allows heat to rise, so the top floor isn't so hot while the lower floors are cold, or open the top vents in summer to allow the cold air to flow downstairs.And don't correct them when they use the "real feel", or "feels like" temperatures they have been reporting, just to make people feel as if temperatures are hotter than they have ever been.

Realistically I would reach out to a good real estate friendly CPA. 

In many states you have to be a licensed real estate broker/agent to be a property manager.

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