Contractor was slow, so I started my own team Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

Shall we start with the demographic that rents houses?

Then start looking for a new tenant. 

I think it is pretty darn tough from what I see to start and run your own brokerage, either day 1 or day 3001. 

I'm sure values overall will continue to rise, but for a 102 year old house will mine start to plateau?

My other complaint is that you need to start from the beginning.

I look forward to continuing to learn from the BiggerPockets community as I navigate my real estate investing journey.I’ve had some success on the eastern shore of Maryland, though even that market has started to frankly become expensive, there are still pockets of potential growth both rent & appreciation, thoigh it’s becoming harder to find, also there is a massive rental shortage out there, a county I just put a property contract on, literally has 3 properties for rent right now, but it does make rental comps quite difficult, outside of that I’ve started looking a little more into western Md and some southern pa markets but still trying to get a feel for them, overall I think in this market places that are affordableish and have some draw will do well with the continued wfh + affordability crisis but keep in mind while I think the eastern shore is actually fairly safe market for the most part a lot of rural areas definitely have boom bust potential and in theory more risk than dc metro, though the low price points do by definition tend to mitigate some of those risks. 

conversions can be more expensive than new construction sometimes. maybe they can do a studio conversion as a start and make it smaller. there are a ton of strategies and structures but start by studying the market for 2 family properties and getting to know the miami zoning codes. you are the expert not them. ask for compensation 

My background is in math and engineering so I also think it'd be cool to analyze their spending and maybe start recognizing areas for improvements. 

If he violates it one more time, kick him out.If you wait until a problem presents itself and then try to find a solution, you will struggle.