Daryl:Advertising / {self-}promotion / soliciting / dealmaking are all activities which must take place in the Real Estate Marketplace.

I read in the papers during the current health care debate many believed that people on medicaid are drug addicts, have mental problems.

Make sure you get esstopal letters from every tenant, copies of leases, security deposits, past payment records etc.It can be a problem mixing section 8 with non section 8....different mentalities that often do not get along.If the money works you can go ahead and in the future evict if necessary.

So I suppose welfare & some mental disability stuff going on here.

Finally I've been sort of mentally ball-parking IRR but I suppose I should just calculate it.

I don't think he is a bad person, but I do think that his mentality was different than mine.  

They include photography, yard sign, lock box, MLS listing, and promotion through the usual 30 or so distribution sites, and have up-sales of running an open house and a few others.  

Older agents love young newbies who have the hustle and go mentality.

Unfortunately I don't, this was five years ago, it was a promotion they were running.

She's even talked about installing a boxing ring and hiring a promoter to bring in weekly fighters from across the border but again I feel like she's just terrible at reaching customers!