My first residents were a young couple that opted for a 3 year lease.

There's probably not a large benefit to you getting a RE license aside from looking at the inventory which is now available to all consumer via Zillow or Realtor.com.

Sure you are losing 10% per month in profits, but now you are utilizing OPT (Other People's Time) allowing you to scale your business, build new relationships, and find more deals.

I did the entire remodel but I prefer not to do repairs that are time consuming.

Their coaching is verbal, your lie is in writing, so guess who a judge will believe.I see this with panicked homeowners calling me about to lose their home to foreclosure and in need of a refinance ASAP -- it turns out that in the process of doing the above, you lose almost all consumer protections.

Your going to get her out and have a expensive time consuming turnover .

All of these activities that I speak of take minutes each day, its not overly time consuming and honestly the majority of my time is spent driving to my post office box to collect checks, entering the payments into the system (only the checks, credit payments are automatically entered), and driving deposits to the bank.Not a terrible way to spend a friday each week!

If a firm has to decide between pursuing you or another case, and you have a very time consuming and expensive protection system they have to try to get through, they will most likely take the other case. 

I have about $15K in savings, no consumer debt, and excellent credit.

"borrow"/buy from Consumer #1 and pay 0.4%, then lend/sell that exact same money right back out to Consumer #2 at 4.375%... except in your case you are BOTH consumers, you're selling them money and then buying that exact money right back at a higher price.