When renters lose jobs, leases are terminated and houses go vacant for months; pushing landlords to lower rents and limiting profitability of the investment.

However, they're sometimes weary of an investor just looking to hang their license for the discount and will ask upfront that you commit a certain amount of hours a week (that's up to your local hiring team).As an associate agent you wouldn't be taking the transactions across the finish line yourself, including your own, but you WOULD save more money as Redfin gives a big discount to their associate agents for their personal transactions above and beyond normal customers get, but there is a limit (~2 a year I believe).I LOVE LOVE LOVE Redfin, but from my experience it's not a place to just hang a license - they'll be wanting to hire and train someone who be at least part-time. 

However, I have to carry over $5K in losses because it exceeds my $25K annual limit.

If my limited experience can help anyone, please ask.

Water bills used to be around $90, but now with all the suburbs having to pick up the slack for all those in Detroit that don't feel the need to pay their own water bills, the price went up.I'd look at companies that come out and sub meter and start changing your lease to include tenant paid water, or a monthly limit. 

Can they make private loans with or without a lien, invest using their own name, a limited partnership, etc?

Often when we speak of NNN we define it by either limiting items not covered, or including items like structural repairs, HVAC maintenance, roof repair, and general maintenance, etc.

In New Jersey, there are limits on how much a landlord can take up front.

For now I am jumping from market to market because I am still starting out with limited capital and merely shift markets when I get priced out of an appreciating MSA.  

Or try to connect with other investors in your investment area, find a new pm and give them power of attorney in a limited use to fire and replace your current PM company.