It looks like you are a brand new independent agent, and this is an agreement for more senior agents to assist you with your first three closings, and some training sessions?

As a brand new investor, you first must become educated on the basics, which you can get quite a bit from right here on BP. 

Seeing how you are brand new at this, you may want to forego the sandwich lease and take a look at cooperative assignments, instead. 

I pay less than $600 a year for $300k properties with 300/300 limits with an expensive name brand provider.

How can I check references if you are brand new?

You can have a brand new water heater that can fail in under a year, or you could have one last 25 years at 2.5 times its life expectancy...and a water heater is fairly inexpensive.

Now, my AC recently went out and is going to require a replacement (around 5k to 7k depending on the brand I select).

Hello guys, Im brand new to the forums.

I have been reading through the knowledgebase and can't get enough of this site.My name is Becky and I am brand new to real estate (aside from working on a few accounts as an employee of an accounting firm).

Recently, I've been using twitter to generate leads on good tenants and trying to increase my 'PM' brand recognition for a specific area.