It is vitally important that you treat your investors money well, communicate properly, document well as well as use an attorney to set up the offering properly.

No more than a small initial payment to cover initial materials required for the start of the work to be paid at start of work once all documents (including insurance certs) are submitted. 

I've been evaluating:Monthli: surprisingly free service with news, calendar, documents, maintenance tracking, basic web forum by member groups.

Go online for their location and dates.

Pre-licensing class $300.00 (63hours of class time required) $83.00 State exam, $125.00 post license class (45 hours online), $1187.00 realtor organization fee.

I think it is a great idea to add wording in the lease document that if, for any reason, a repair person is called for a repair and finds nothing wrong, that it can be billed to the tenant.

You'll have access to MLS to be able to look for deals, keep the commission, list your own deals, referrals commission, document database, you'd have the online tools to submit offers, its a good networking opportunity because you'll be further involved in the real estate community and you'd get more of an educational opportunity because you have to study in order to pass the state exam.The realtor is involved throughout the process.I'm new so I mean.. what the heck do I know?

Have graphs and charts with your numbers, keep it professional, and document everything.

However, architect drawings are a very important to have as part of your contract documents with your GC.

I don't think rents have gone up any higher than that now when i checked online on a couple of websites.