My name is Mike Leo and like the title says I am from Pittsburgh, PA and new to real estate investing and BiggerPockets as well.

Not sure if I'd call them home runs but they seem to do well.

They will likely make more off of you than you will off of them.

The metro areas median price is like $680k or so.

I would contact other facil and see if they are looking for more spaces. 2) Co-Living / Rent by room strategy - I would try to turn that half bath into a 3/4 or full and then it could work very well.

Those fees go to the Broker not the agent… in many cases it’s a fee that the office pays to the company itself (like a franchise fee).  

Private money is like fire.

I'd like to rent it as much as possible and leave a few weeks during the year to stay there with family. 

The only thing that I'd add to this is to have the loan amortization schedule clearly defined as well.

We lived in it as a single family residence and over the years of things that looked like they had been renovated started failing… we realized the owner before seemed to have a slap it together cheaply himself mentality.