I just wanted to share one of my favorite quotes by Brandon Turner: “So often people think the key to success is superb intelligence, unnatural luck, excessive time to devote to big tasks, or knowing the right people at the right time.

I'm not going to allow you to exclude any other agent from bringing me a deal.I'm absolutely happy to pay you a commission for the deals YOU find and subsequently negotiate for me.I absolutely think the 60 day notice & one year auto-renew is excessive.

To me, I can understand paying the state tax in the state where I have the rental property, but paying a CA state tax's seems excessive.

While the rent was low, the building was the definition of deferred maintenance which I would soon discover in a utility bill from Georgia Power in excess of my monthly rent.

@Andy Pillinger, there actually is a way to use a 1031 to deal with that excess gain above your 250K primary residence exclusion.  

So, in review, take excess funds, place them in a brokerage account with aggressive margin rates, place cash in secured assets, borrow against said assets, and expand my real estate holdings essentially for free. 

Avoid excessive calling to the same call recipient.

@Justin Kovach 5 million does seem rather excessive. 

If, however it truly gets out of hand to a point of creating a fire hazard or impeding the ability to make a reasonably hasty exit; or if they are completely blocking an exit or an electrical panel; or excessively stockpiling recyclables or flammable material; if food has been clearly left out for extended periods, with roaches crawling all over it or worse, and household rubbish is not being reasonably contained, I will give them ONE 30 day period to make dramatic improvement, a second violation would result in non-renewal or termination for cause.

Whatever tools anyone wants to use to employ the key is practice.A 400 pound police officer out of shape is going to have limited effectiveness just like someone taking the arts for decades that teaches but no longer trains and is fat and out of shape.It's not what you learn it's HOW you implement it.