Myth: Getting your license means you will start to get business and sell homes and earn commissionFact: Selling homes, lead funneling, closing deals, handling clients is hard work and you must bust you A** to find clients. 

got it good work is hard to find especially when there is so much down here. 

You will find better events into NJ or Westchester as NYC is unobtainable for most new investors.

As long you clearly identify and track the expense per property (and you can do that in Quicken, with properties, categories and subcategories, or in Quickbooks), you’ll not need CCs and accounts per properties.Here are some graphical diagrams to help you on this quest (or confuse you further): - Asset Protection Decision Diagram - to help assess the need for asset protection, and what to implement: https://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/CosIorg/file/asset-protection-decision-diagram - Asset Protection Onion Diagram - what, when, and at what cost one should implement in terms of asset protection - https://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/CosIorg/file/asset-protection-onion-diagram-v2 - What is needed for complete asset protection OR the domains that need to be intersected to find asset protection

Get to know the agent, be friendly and professional...if the property goes on the market and doesn't sell for a while, that agent will probably call you back.You might want to send out letters/mail campaign to find your own off market deals.  

Finding a good script or preparing one will likely help you with this endeavor.

Has anyone run into this issue with not finding any comps and if so what did you do to find the right price and get it rented? 

Property shark, prop stream and attom data are pretty popular.You can find a recently renovated property that has sold via zillow.

My plumber said he doesn’t do this and that I’ll need to find someone separate.

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