The biggest competition after rehab will be new construction developments. 

I'm truly amazed at how knowledgable and helpful the BP members are and thankful for such a great resource.My experience: I was a full-time real estate agent from 1998-2009 in the Memphis, TN area where I was involved primarily in residential property development, land and lot sales, along with some commercial property sales and leasing.

At the beginning of the year, I went off on my own, and am working on developing two self storage facilities. 

Marketing is actually one of my natural strong points, although I have never done marketing in this industry, most of my marketing skill is in aviation and online help for personal growth and development.

Wage laborers were also dependent; that was why Jefferson feared the development of industrial capitalism with its need for wage laborers.

The free leads you will get as a newbie will likely be the long shots and scraps nobody wants to put time into.Most of those never amount to a closed sale but some do.I remember way back when I did residential a trick was to go to new home subdivision developments and preview houses of different lots.

In Missouri, the attorney general has a guide:https://www.ago.mo.gov/docs/default-source/publica...and in St Louis (where I own properties) there is a landlord guide:https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/...Tower Grove Neighborhoods Community Development Corporation has landlord training classes with different topics - evictions is the topic in March.

Many property managers I have met here are really eager to jump to me and say they would love to work with me and that they are the best.I was actually so frustrated that I had to develop my own company to help my clients and myself.

. :-) Certainly keep us posted as you develop your portfolio and definitely when you fire one of those bosses. 

Behind my relatives home is a new multifamily development of townhomes.