This job is really hard and if you do not have a heart to serve your tenants and help them to have a great place to live that they will be proud of, you are ultimately going to fail in real estate.The talk was successful; we told horror stories about chickens in basements and ducks with an inflatable 200-gallon pool in a third-floor apartment (how can anything go wrong with that?).

This job is really hard and if you do not have a heart to serve your tenants and help them to have a great place to live that they will be proud of, you are ultimately going to fail in real estate.The talk was successful; we told horror stories about chickens in basements and ducks with an inflatable 200-gallon pool in a third-floor apartment (how can anything go wrong with that?).

You had investors lying out both sides of their mouths about completed renovations, outlandish scams running all the time, groups of investors or the really big boys pumping up whole blighted neighborhoods to raise recent comps and then selling remote-appraised blocks of houses at a time...unless the appraiser actually gets into the house, there's just too much leeway for lying.

My dilemma lies in that I don’t feel like I should work with the agent anymore because I’m not myself buying the property.

I think @John Mendez mistook my comments.Yes, you need to be an investor to be a great investor-friendly Realtor but as a new Realtor and one with no investment experience, which comes first the chicken or the egg?

Honesty, be honest and upfront about what you are offering them, you never ever want to lie to someone about what you do, or are offering. 

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!!  

Do not lie like these other Realtors.

I guess I’m writing on here for a few reasons, 1) kinda scared to go out on my own “not going to lie”  even though I retain a ton of skills and contacts for construction                                                                          2) looking to network so I head the right direction on this new adventure.3) I’m building a short term rental (Sea container home) in wine country and any advise on managing it,  I would appreciate itThanks for your time reading this, tried to keep it short.                                               

You can find that through my profile.We're busy creating such a resource, although we'll focus on Mexico first because that's where most of the interest lie in the moment, which isn't surprising because there has never been a better time to invest in real estate in Mexico.