It helps you build credibility with other professionals (you know HML, Contractors Etc.)In AZ I learned from my CPA that from the founding of my LLC I can write off my entire cell phone and internet bills at home as they are essential in my home based business of real estate investing, without the LLC I was only allowed to write off the percentage portion based on the square footage designation I gave to my home office space, that is 10% in my case, which I still can use to write off part of my electric and mortgage payments since it is still used as home office.You can start building your brand now, rather than waiting and hoping that no one takes your company name/idea...

Sadly, women Realtors are so exposed to this.Highly recommendnever show aloneget the prospects Name, Cell, and Email and refuse to show w/oTell an office mate of where, when and whom you are meeting withUpon arriving onsite and in the presence of the prospect, Call your own office voice mail and speak so as to be over heard, "Yeah, I with xxx at yyy and expect to be done by  HH:MM, C U then".

Not surprising, the single most helpful individual in this whole process was someone I met on Bigger Pockets, who would become my loan officer, @Upen Patel, with The Federal Savings Bank.

I buy the vast majority of my deals on land contract and always pay my attorney the $400 for his office to prepare the land contract and memorandum of contract.

Once she picks the brand she wants then she might want to look at a couple of offices hear her and see which one she likes best.

@Andrew K.My brother is an officer, and I had some interest in the military niche.

My office is near Hamilton Ave.We are working on a burn out at this time.The owner has already collected his insurance money, so the motivation is there.He wants more than we are willing to pay, but as you know everything is negotiable.Fire damaged houses can be profitable.There is a service that will report to you all fires in the area.We work with Public Adjustors who represent owners to get the highest possible pay off.Insurance companies are notorious for beating you down and paying as little as possible. 

But the work is not challenging and my fellow co-workers have instructed me to slow down on numerous occasion.

Those require an onsite leasing office, full time maintenance, and some other things that the smaller ones do not, but the returns can be great in an area where rents are increasing.

I'm buying my first property with no agents involved and I just picked up a thick stacks of papers from the escrow office that I need to sign.