And, my agent gave incredible service for the 2% she got - much, much more than just listing on the MLS.Of course, an added benefit that my agent received is that she also represented me on our new purchase so that was another 2.5% for her.Finally, the commission doesn't really matter *if* you have educated buyers.

a quick note...call me paranoid, but on my appliance addendum, it has the serial numbers of all appliances...nobody will be walking out with my fridge :mrgreen: :mrgreen: ...of course with a higher end rental, you may not have to worry about this that much

Get them the $$(doing what U DO BEST), may not fit Your scenario right now, however my foot in the door of rehabbers was putting up a FLYER offering my services to GC's & Subs (& of course their Cash Strapped Customers) @ Lowe's, Home Depot, 84 Lumber & the other "local" building Supplies companies w/a stack of cards.

A year at 12% interest with taxes and insurance means OUCH.When it was all said and done, I had to sell it for $17,000 less than what we had put into it to fix it up and on top of that I had spent $12,000 in holding costs over the course of the year.

If you find the right properties, my OPM will CYA (cover your ***) and of course mine plus my OPM will often help you structure your deal.

And yes the breaking even figures in about 2 months' worth of vacancies over the course of this upcoming year.

Of course as the power of COAL rose;England's power rose accordingly, at one point almost every city of more than 50,000 population in the British Isles was a coal mining center.

Also I have seen "Real Estate Guru" courses on Ebay for just a few dollars.

In about 90% of the cases, when a tenant was evicted there was very little damage, because we were in the property a lot prior to the eviction... and of course in some cases we never got the rent and ended up with a trashed property.

Thank you for your replies :D .ToneyJ, thanks for your recommendations- I am currently enrolling in a real estate principles course at my local community college.