If you're just going to hang a license and do a transaction or two a year, and you have the training to avoid legal issues, I'd just go  to a 100% firm. 

Stories like hers make me get up at 4 - 5am every day to get my real estate learning done before I head to my other passions which is training for stunts.

You want to partner with someone...to fund YOUR househack, so you can get on the job training on how to manage a property and tenants?

Then you will know more than you knew before and will be able to take precautions, such as encapsulation or removal of items with lead-based paint.Take RPP (renovation, repair, painting) training.

Microsoft Excel and training. 

The brokerage I chose though had training and partnership opportunities, many top agents I could learn from, as well as a more recognized brand that is very active in the local community on many levels.

No animal, bird, or other pet will be kept on the premises, except properly trained dogs needed by blind, deaf, or disabled persons and ____none_______ under the following conditions: ___none ___________.The tenant didn't have dogs himself but his girlfriend had 2 dogs.

They aren't trained well, tend to have limited knowledge and experience, and typically want to try all kinds of hairbrained transactions and listings because they are desperate to make some coin.  

These are professionals with additional training and a stricter code of ethics.

While we may lose significant equity, owning cheap housing during a crisis seems like a decent train of thought.