Not knowing the age of the wood you are speaking of, I am going to take a guess and assume that the pine is fairly old.  

In your OP, you said references were great - what type of references were they, and how did you go about verification of them?  

You will want a completed financial statement, last three years tax returns, real estate investing resume, spreadsheet of all your properties detailing the address, age, size, cost, value, rent income, expenses of each house, pictures.  

How do you anticipate to execute a contract on a property before being of legal age?

Problem is age of the kids on motor vehicles and auto coverage being available.

Intentionally going for the aged look from the beginning.Best of luck to you in whatever you decide.

I have never leased to anyone under the age of 25, but can imagine college students could be a big strain on properties and management's time.Have fun with this one.

And I retired three years ago, at age 50, because of it.

But you'll need to still learn a lot and work really hard.We are very blessed to have been existing in this particular period in human history, The Information Age.

In the day and age of Zillow, Trulia, Gmaps etc, the average person may feel an agent is an unnecessary expense.