As far as a good transition job goes, I think working with a General Contractor or Builder in some degree will help to expand your rehabbing knowledge and get a feel for how to estimate the renovation cost of investment properties on down the road.

Run the numbers and maintenance costs, it will vary from area to area.

Although update frequencies vary, many sources update on a daily or weekly basis and we update our information as soon as we are provided with new data.

If you do figure out an arbitrage strategy, you will make some temporary profits but eventually the computers will detect your wins and start front-running your trades.It helps to have an advanced degree in Math/Physics/Statistics, access to sophisticated simulation software to back-test your trading strategies, and the intestinal fortitude of a Navy Seal :)

Depending on the asset class, such as rental, hotel or development projects, income projections can vary significantly.

Farmers and Foremost generally only recruit people with college degrees and do actual background checks on them while some independent firms I have worked with have sent me claims to handle before they even knew how to spell my last name.

The bargains seem few and far between (but that may vary on the market) as for their reserve and buy it now price, it frequently seems that it has no relation to the reality of the property condition.

The laws and procedures vary from town to town and state to state, but for what it's worth here is my take.

In my opinion, you are going to want some degree of separation between where you are picking up motivated seller leads, and where you spend time explaining to investors what you do.

The fees that it might trigger most likely vary by state but you are probably correct that it could trigger some fees for changing ownership.