I don't want to hire her as an employee, but it seems like a fine line here, especially if we have a written agreement regarding job duties. 

Now as for the deed, usually tax deeds are fine until you want to sell, then you either need to clean title or sell to a cash investor at a bit of a discount. 

I turned a $35,000 fine into $700 once.

In Arkansas, this is very serious and if an agent starts to act in their own interest or NOT in the best interest of their client, they can lose their license and pay a hefty fine.

There is no HUD certified list and if you have a HUD consultant on the project then you should be completely fine.  

If you can manage to close a loan somehow with that disclosure, you'll be fine as long as the bank clearly understands what the money is being used for.  

I found a good mentor and I'm sure i'll find others in different areas, as I go along, so that's fine for me at the moment.If you end up doing it, let us know how it goes!

Several have already said it but the best thing to do is either an open house or a bundling several appointments at once.This will work fine 19 out of 20 times.  

I have a thought that's sort of along the same lines as far as looking for "hot" markets to buy whatever in, sure there may be certain ones that get "hotter" than others at times for a wide variety of possible reasons, but I'd also say that there will be a long list of markets that you will do just fine in, provided you handle your end of the rental business as well as you possibly can.

One you fine out WHO the owner is from county or state records, the hard part is locating them.