I had no intentions of staying in residential just growing it off to sell to one of the bigger companies that wanted growth in volume for agents.All the agent problems mentioned in my other post combined with the fact that I saw maybe only 20% closing something per month.

It keeps the useless offers out of my e-mail.My parents were real estate investors, and I watched them deal with all kinds of REALTORS, and real estate licensees growing up - @Adam Bartomeo, I have to agree, real estate "unprofessionals" are the bane of the industry, but that does not mean they're the norm.

I'm sure there have been increases over the years that the assessors office made to keep up with growing value.  

For instance some will put it in mice type ( barely visible ) on the bottom to be in compliance.

For instance if you used revolving debt v. fixed to make purchases, your score will be worse with the revolving.  15 inquiries in a very short time period like 30-60 days would cause your score to go down significantly. 

There are some instances where you can find things like furnaces cheaper directly from suppliers, but by and large if you know what you want, and buy it when it's available, you can make out pretty well.  

I own a small but growing logistics company that is requiring less of my time and would like to focus that energy on expanding my portfolio into REI.

As I grow, I have heard that you need to create minimum qualifications so the potential tenants know what to expect and therefore cannot sue you for discrimination.

Split was not that good 60/40, but in order to have the foundations to build a good business, it was fine for me.Then, I move to a pops and mom, you know them there are tons of them out there, where the split is great, ( you get almost 100% commission), but marketing and support for you is none, I was doing my CE on my board and trying to get as much as I could from different sources, at that time, my income plateau, and then I realized in order for me to grow, I had to move.

Eventually as I grow and obtain more properties, I'll prob eventually hand it over to PM - but we'll see.