In the end, I didn't listen to him, but that makes my wonder if any landlord here indeed opt to forgo this standard practice.  

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Hello BP family....I am here to seek advice and hopefully get some best practices from some of you that are already in the business of buying and selling homes.

It's important to develop a corporate mindset on all issues eary on, so you as you grow you are not scaling up with poor business practices.

Also, in the back of my pre-licensing book there was about 4 practice tests in which I took multiple times.  

Construction is always a practical approach however; will not get you where you want to go very fast.

I believe this is common practice during a transition.

I'm a 63 year old doctor and a student of BP and RE investing but little practice.

In these cases, the specific sector was over-inflated and collapsed as faulty - maybe even fraudulent financial vehicles and/or practices were introduced to suck even more money out of the sector as it heated up.Just because the dot com sector eventually swallowed reality and fixed its fundamentals on value products/services, the energy sector resolved in the courts, and the housing sector flushed out its overly speculative practices (many of which were really bank-driven, primarily as loans issued to folks who had no business buying housing - and toxic mortgage packages created with weird names and no vehicle history to attract investments thus made with no due diligence and no 3rd party oversight - which took unprecedented government intervention and bailout across many sectors to fix), doesn't mean that the next sector downturn trigger doesn't lurk out there.What some call creativity or innovation is really just greed masked in packages so new and weird that due diligence is nearly impossible.  

I still think this is a common business practice, and worth noting that it's a practice that is done through a licensed broker.