This includes services performed by owners, employees, and independent contractors and time spent on maintenance, repairs, collection of rent, payment of expenses, provision of services to tenants, and efforts to rent the property.

Whenever I am training employees to sell I teach them to move on from people like you.

The last 5 years was a ridiculous RE bull market that people think will continue indefinitely into the future, RE will begin to go from market outperform to standard performance.The following is an excerpt from my post  The Tech Employee’s Ultimate Guide to Getting Started in Real Estate Investing: Financial HousekeepingBefore we get started with real estate, you have to make sure you’re covering the basics.

As a current furloughed federal employee I’m even more motivated to get this ball rolling.

Thank you to the nice County Tax assessor's office employee who gave me the lead about the CRiis.com website that lists the County-recorded records! 

My business partner and I are both W2 employees for large companies with good salaries.

I am a contractor and can do all the work or have employees that can.

I was lucky and got to work with my dad (as an employee) who was a real estate investor.

@Anthony Gayden  Thank you for your service as a federal employee! 

Ask open ended question.Never pay for any part of the work up front.Never purchase the materials for the contractor, because they can claim they are your employee and not a contractor, then you could be liable for them and the withholding taxes associated with having an employee.Ask to see some of his work.