You should schedule to take the exam the moment you can after the class ends.

They also absorb many expenses that the tenants could take on, such as a few utilities, background checks for applications (they pay a lot for this a year), and damage out of deposits at year end.NOI under new management could near 70k with savings for 7% vacancies, 7% repairs, and 4% CapEx (due to many apts in just 2 buildings).I'm interested in trying to figure out how to schedule a payback period in excel, if anyone has number crunching experience with that for 1) the loan, and 2) the investors downpayment.

I'd look at your friends Schedule E for the last several years.

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Some of my clients don't want to believe it - they ask me to schedule a showing for next weekend and are surprised when it's gone.

Not all properties stay as some will get pulled out weeks before the actual date of scheduled auction.

She must give you monthly rent on the first (schedule your mortgage loan payment on the 10th).

There are a lot of great options out there; aside from providing the basics (ie. listing tool to get the property published to 10+ major sites, scheduling tool to schedule viewings, tenant screening with comprehensive applications which include nationwide criminal background checks + credit checks + eviction history, digital lease creation tool, rent collection tool, and maintenance tracking tool), some services also offer your tenants additional capabilities which makes it an easier sell on your end when getting them to transition over (ie. all of the other tools in addition to their ability to report on-time rent payments to the credit bureaus; this can create an added incentive for making sure they pay that rent on time).

First, it makes it easy to report *accurate* income and expenses on forms like 8825 and Schedule E. 

In terms of finding a 'mentor' agent, you would definitely have better luck with finding someone at your existing brokerage - it's what works for me as they're more willing to help someone that works for the same firm (easier to split commissions and partner up on listings to free up schedule).