As I kept reading through the forums and listening to the podcasts there was a common theme of letting a natural conversation start and extracting the information that I needed during that time, so thats what I aimed to do.

>someone said recently "you can't eat appreciation" and I liked that a lot.I have seen this before, but it is not correct as there are numerous ways to extract the appreciation.  

It’s not as robust as some of the other CRM’s, e.g. no automated texts, voicemail blasts, etc but you can extract a .csv file for upload into other products that do so.

Vacancy is the one of the worst expenses you can deal with, so the point is to keep the tenant, keep them content, and extract the rent needed.Since they're also month-to-month, I would only do introductions to start.

This your last statement key here is the point, and why they are cool , then you have to extract and reverse-engineer the statement.

If you have the capital to buy and conduct rehabs on somewhat distressed properties with deferred maintenance and sub-market rents then there is a lot of upside potential to making improvements and raising rents/extracting equity to move on to the next.

In such a case, the only way to reduce interest paid and "accelerate" the loan is to go in with a shorter term or make higher payments using 0% funds (you pay no interest on it).In this case, if I were guaranteed a 4% interest rate, I'd opt for 15 year amortization so I'd be able to refinance sooner and extract my equity, if that were a key item in my strategy. 

hmm, counter intuitive to me.A Refi may extract some equity, but will increase your debt on the property and usually increases the mortgage payments. 

I also enjoy the negotiations to extract as much value for the client as possible.

I'm looking for long-term wealth accumulation and for the near-term tax benefits.I'm hoping that I can extract some good information from everyone here and hopefully contribute some of the same at some point.