Properties purchased w/ mortgages that have subsequent mortgage discharges on record with the respective county, and..2.

With respect to building relationships in a particular market, I spent 12 months in my market of Milwaukee WI before I shelled out a coin.  

As long as you keep educating yourself, do business with integrity and treat people with respect, you will be fine. 

You did not treat David nor "Bob" with respect when they alluded to the useful definition of a cap rate.

Agents talk and will blackball you so can not do any business with any of them.You always want to treat agent with the same respect you would want.  

Are they sending clean/ respectful vendors to make the repair?

Having good relationships with your tenants is professional - you want them to be responsive when you have landlord - tenant interactions and you want to establish a cooperative and respectful relationship on both sides.

I work with kids that age in my W-2 job and they are surprisingly reasonable when they feel they are being treated with respect.

@Chris Mason, all do respect, but getting a contractor bid isn't the same as what @Pratik P. is talking about.  

., you are exercising independent judgment with respect to the rental and not simply ratifying decisions made by a manager, then, you may deduct up to $25,000 of real estate losses in a given tax year if your modified adjusted gross income (basically your non-real estate related income, with a few tweaks) is less than $100,000.