How often do you adjust your insurance based on these factors, annually?

If it comes up I say "Right now I am looking for rentals to hold, but sometimes I renovate and sell to homeowners, and if the deal doesn't work for me I can often find another investor who would be interested."

Unfortunately, it often feels like too many realtors out there forgot what it means to be a realtor - on your toes, in depth in your local market, making, updating and perfecting sellers and buyers lists, etc etc.

I may be too late, but I would go along with LynnM in that you can often get a beekeeper to remove it for free.

You're looking for a needle in a haystack property for a buyer who may well not perform and if the deal does happen, you're not going to get a commission check at closing.This form of unlicensed brokering is often called "bird dogging".

the agent might make it possible for the investor buyer to view the property before it gets listed on the MLS, but even then there is often a first look period with no investor bids accepted.

That said, real estate agents are often WAY too optimistic.

i don't want to get too political, but unfortunately, business is politics...my biggest complaint owning apartments was how the government would support tenants til death and shun the landlords...have had several code violations properties, where i fix everything, but tenants do the damage again, and we go back to environmental court with the code inspector..even when i have pics and proof, it's still an expensive pain lawyering up when the government provides free attorneys to tenants..i guess i don't have it as bad as others...in some states it takes months to evict, and in others if the tenants don't pay the city water bill, the government can lien your property...all this does is put more pressure on landlords and take responsibilty off of tenants..to me, that is a huge pain!

There are always surprises and I have found, more often than not, I make less than I expect from a deal.The upside is, after doing a few of these and holding them for a few years, you get to raise rents and your monthly payments to the seller don't change.

If you've done some of the work yourself (I often do at least some things), then I'll bill them for anything I spend, but not for my time.Finally, total up the deductions.