If you buy right, your normal recurring expenses would be covered by cash flow.

They will normally provide it for free as long as you use them to do the closing if you land a deal.

Let's hope I wake up early enough to actually make it.

I have 3 fantastic 4plexes, when I purchased them the ROI was well above the normal 1% rule, and they still make decent money today.

If you do not list the property you stand to save a few dollars, but you're stuck working on the tenants' timeline (meaning there's not much incentive for them to move forward at a normal pace since they already live there).

This is sometimes hard to understand because we all tend to hang out with mavericks like ourselves, and think its normal to buy houses we never see for cash, but in the world outside, real Investors like you are few and far between.

Things are definitely not normal right now.

I think you mentioned that you only get paid for results.. correct.. well that is good.What happens when you rope all these newbies into large credit lines with sucker starter rates they max out the credit cards like so many americans do then it jumps to the normal 21% and they get into credit card debt hell how do you help them with that. 

But my offer was a cash offer with ZERO contingencies and a larger than normal earnest-money check.

In Rhode Island, my understanding is that it's only "super" to the extent of 6 months' worth of condominium association fees; after that it has normal "non-super" priority ("first in time, first in line").