I find it interesting that every other industry is looking to grow revenue (and profit), while in REI there is that idea that more doors are better.

They have payment integrations that allow your tenants to do direct withdrawal, online CC payments, and they can also go to Walmart or other retailers and pay with cash or check and it gets deposited into your account and best of all it’s applied directly to their account in the software.

We invest in real estate locally and work full time in the sales side of the industry.

Hi Quinten:Many CPAs, myself included, leverage their experience in real estate with their primary industry.

There is strong industry there, as well as stability. 

If supply and demand can't correct the difficulty with price, then some sort of regulatory force is acting on the industry that needs to be removed, because we are all screaming for more GCs from sea to shining sea.

They don't work for us agents, BUT there can be a lot of "you scratch my back I'll scratch yours"-ism in the industry and you could be picking up on that relationship as you observe the relationship between the agent and the inspector.In general if I don't have a trusted inspector in a market I'll default to using a Pillar to Post inspector, since they have fantastic training protocols and have a much higher bar of excellence than the average inspector on the market. 

Residential to commercial, raw land to industrial, long term to short term residential. 

A retail lender or broker can do it in less than 30 days fairly easily.The catch, though, is appraisal turn times for your area.

I'm currently employed as a General Manager in the Tourism Industry but looking to make the transition to becoming a full time Mortgage Broker this Winter.