There is ton of FREE learning resources on here and it is amazing the amount of information one can obtain by consistently participating on the site. 

But if the property is as rare as you say, the seller may be willing to take their chances depending on their situation because inventory is so bare right now.

From my point of view, many of these "developers" are really barely small businesses. 

Labor participation rate at or above national average5.

You want the bare minimum to live?

Comparatively, let’s say I spend 1 million dollars on a mastermind group that connects me with Grant Cardone, Tony Robbins, Robert Kiyosaki, and other high performing individuals that allows me to participate in high level deals that end up making me million of dollars, then that course would have been super cheap for what I got out of it.

The listing agent marketed this as totally turnkey so nobody would have expected a pilot which barely lit during a brutal winter.

I am excited to be joining the BP community, and I look forward to participating in the discussions and learning from other members.Don

Curious if anyone in this forum can help us consider whether these activities to count toward the qualification of real estate professional (1-3 is more clear, but not sure we can gain the 50% participation hours needed over the part time job right now): 1) Advertise bookings on all channels (VRBO, etc), maintain all listing details and rates including researching surrounding properties and using technology tools to stay competitive. 2) Updating blogs on our sites and others related to our property listing for demand generation.3) Personally manage our own bookings we secure (this one is more clear to us)4) This is the big question - we use Ring surveillance on the outside front and rear property.

Curious if anyone in this forum can help us consider whether these activities to count toward the qualification of real estate professional (1-3 is more clear, but not sure we can gain the 50% participation hours needed over the part time job right now): 1) Advertise bookings on all channels (VRBO, etc), maintain all listing details and rates including researching surrounding properties and using technology tools to stay competitive. 2) Updating blogs on our sites and others related to our property listing for demand generation.3) Personally manage our own bookings we secure (this one is more clear to us)4) This is the big question - we use Ring surveillance on the outside front and rear property.