It's an older book, published in the 60's I believe but I read "how I turned $1000 into a million in real estate in my spare time" by Bill Nickerson years ago and got a tremendous amount out of it. 

I get it everybody has to make a buck , but I didnt hire the buyers agent , what ever they want to charge THEIR customer is fine with me , but I wasnt paying it .  2.5% sounds like a low number until you put it into real numbers on a $800k sale and you see it as  $20,000 . 

I know this is an old post but still it's amazing and I just found this area of real estate! 

In my opinion, you can go wrong on ANY investment strategy BUT if you're thinking about investing in real estate house hacking is by farrrrr the most forgiving strategy.

Central Florida Realty Investors a local real estate investors group, has a Brevard chapter you may want to consider joining.

From oceanfront vacation rentals to multi family complexes to RV Parks, boutique hotels or storage and industrial facilities, Oregon real estate investment opportunities come in spades.

Now if this is clearly disclosed, at the end of the day it is your business and you can run it how you choose.Keep in mind, there is a lot of competition in new PM businesses because of the changing real estate sales market.

I have contemplated doing a conversion like that with existing warehouse or office space but I am extremely new to commercial real estate investing and I think that is beyond what I'd like to tackle in the beginning.

This type of contingency is known as a "lease-up contingency" and is sometimes used in commercial real estate transactions.

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