It also means it isn’t a third world country where you might get away with a lot of things. 2.

Fees to think/ask about are as follows:  membership due to your local Realtor Association (that gets you membership up to the National Association of Realtors)franchise fee:  if you are going with a franchise like a ReMax, Coldwell Banker, KW, etc there is generally some fee that you will payE&O policy premiumMLS membership fees (and also how many MLS's do you need, for example NJ technically has 12 MLS if I wanted to cover the entire State)after that there any brokerage fees such as desk fees, technology fee (for eXp for example, this is their big ticket item),The firsst three tend to be the big ticket items. 

My plan is to buy a home about 2000 - 2500 square feet on about an acre that has 3 - 4 small guest houses (700 - 800 2 bedroom) around it and another guest quarters for the grounds keeper who lives there permanently and maintains the property year round.  

These places seem to be more of a few day getaway than places that people book for a week for their yearly family vacations. 

I added a 5% misc. in the fix budget already, then rounded up an additional $3k.After you run a report, how do you determine if you're going to move forward or not (especially given there are always so many unforeseen variables)?

You should take the advice on this thread, get authorities involved, and get away from this wholesaler permanently.No honest business person would hold onto someone else’s money for 8 months for a supposed closing.This is not a person you want to do business with.

Regarding the stock market- While we like the returns in our portfolio we always hedge our bets and only purchase in round lots; then use a straddle strategy to sell covered puts and calls to day traders.

We just closed our seed round and have enough runway to last for about 2 years or so until we raise again. 

If you hire a property manager for buy and hold, you can get away with spreadsheets.

Lets round that to 35k actually and say I'm 10% equity right now.