Ensure with your CPA that the office is dedicated use and qualifying. 5) Again, only 50% for the duplex.

Through no intention of your own you might trigger an IMPLIED AGENCY situation with a seller even with no contract signed for a listing.There are customer acts that are ministerial and then there are client acts.

Banks will ONLY do this if the customer complains (not automatically).

Do I need to dedicate the next few years to learning and just wait to get started?

Simply set up your tenants as customers and everything else follows.

I will continue to treat my tenants as a customer that puts money in my pocket.

I am lucky my job allows me to drive all over the region serving customs.

If you do not take action to force "customers" to pay what they owe, rather than having a defeatist attitude, set up a charity. 

There is also an old (80's style) custom fit vanity in the master bathroom area..

The important thing is that you took the initiative and you're dedicated to working on these deals.