After you build that knowledge, you'll have a better ideal of which programs may benefit you or not. 

Ideally you shouldn't have any correspondence with the tenants if the PM is doing their job. 

Honestly, it is the drive you have to make the career work for you and ideally one or two other agents that take you under their wing and teach you the game.As @Kimberly Barton mentioned it is a grind in the start.

Ideally, you can get a to-do list prior to the spray happening.

It did not work out ideal in my recollection. 

Ideally, you find an out state investment in a state that you would be like to visit occasionally (like Florida) and get some additional tax write off for the trips to the properties, and still vacation as well.

@Emily Debes I am a commercial broker and financing consultant, I deal only in Commercial Financing, this means exclusively with business entities (i.e.

Ideally I'd like to screen the current tenants and transfer their lease into MY lease on the day of closing if they pass my criteria.  

Ideally and hopefully the results should be larger than just solving the problem and meeting your objectives.

in the college town I deal in, the college apartment competitors will give you clue to what the leasing practices are.