Welcome to BP its an awesome source for information and advice.

A lot of good sources on here and education.Let me know if I can assist In your Real Estate Ventures!

I would rather spend any time on this site sharing my experience for the common good and stick with my trusted sources for product, services.Consider a template format requiring certain information for those posting any for sale ads.

Out source the effort to a good agency and if they collect something, at least you'll share in it.

(source zillow) and demographics is stable (source wikipedia).

Interest is a passive income source and not subject to UBIT.

I've been feeling out my network to source good resources and am putting together some friendly meetings in the coming weeks.  

I'm building a list of free and open source tools to help a group of friends sell their houses and am looking for input from others who also do this.SugarCRM (big fan of this -- not the easiest to use for newcomers, but provides great value when on a budget value)Wordpress (big fan here -- once we build a template to showcase a house, then we can then we can script out these installs)LAMP / LEMP -- Linux + Apache / Nginx + MySQL/MariaDB + PHP/Pearl (the platform all of this rides on).  

Best deal I found was using open source solutions (e.g.

This is what I am thinking:  I would consider my first property to be an owner occupied property for 6 months- 1 year ( ie, mom living in it while I work on any fixes necessary) then save enough from my other income sources and mom's "rent" to rent out the first place to upgrade mom to a nicer home.