It's a way for an agent to try to get both side of the transaction..

For example, I am currently looking at online REEBroker for brokerage service that offers a fixed $500 fee per transaction. 

If you are only using your license to find and sell your own deals, then you should go with a flat-fee or per-transaction fee brokerage.

I went through the 2007 market crash, and the net effect on mobile home parks was a spike in demand and higher rents (as our rents mirror the apartment rents, which had a huge run after 2007).

We have had several ultra bad laws passed in the last few years (minimum wage laws, gun laws, business regulation of various sorts, etc), but they're limited in scope, and if they don't effect you personally it's easy for the overall situation to be pretty great still.

Absentee Owners have been popular for a long time, and are apparently still somewhat effective (people are still mailing to them) but they are getting multiple offers to buy their home.

But know that you will only find people who are actively looking and typing in the keyword phrases that you have optimized for.Mail can be effective if you hit lists that who aren’t on every other investor’s radar.

Absentee Owners have been popular for a long time, and are apparently still somewhat effective (people are still mailing to them) but they are getting multiple offers to buy their home.

He'll know contracts and the value well, but the transaction can still be closed directly at a title or attorneys office without official brokerage listing or commissions paid to anyone. 

But I know there are mandatory things a title company must do for the transaction.