Things have been going pretty well so far, and we are trying to diversify and gain new clients.

Alhtough many title co still won't insure the tax collector deed for a number of years would depend on how valuable of a client you were to them..

You can make sure that those line items are taken out of the contract so you can protect your end, we have done that for clients but also try to protect ourselves due to unforeseen expenses that come up that need to be taken care of.

I have some clients who want to know about every little thing, and that's totally fine.  

I've bought three properties for clients through them.

I am looking for a full-time gig to have some steady income (doing real estate deals on the side as I'm starting to get more clients), but I really want to get pre-approved for an FHA loan.

I also wouldn't mind maybe meeting a few new clients too as I try expanding and growing in both aspects.  

if you borrow 400k at 5% with a 20 year am your payment would come in @ 2.639k  leaving you a cash flow of roughly $900 a month.If you forgo the 1031, eat that tax and and invest the 250k you should be able to get a 4 plex, rented at 550 per unit yielding 2.2k in gross rents netting 1.1k (using the 50% rule) but you don't have all the other units rented out and tenants paying the mortgage for you building equity.Note these are rough numbers but my wife recently helped a client buy a 8 plex here in PHX and the buyer looked at a lot of properties over an extended period before finding one that worked  for them.  

@Jasmine Wilkes  Yes should have the option of ending the client relationship.  

Some have postulated that with the renminbi being devalued and the Chinese stock market 'crashing' (only back to Feb 2015 levels) that foreign investment from China would slow down but anecdotally at least we haven't heard that from our Chinese clients.