Hard work makes the dreams work:) The key is to constantly & consistently lead generate - preferably seller leads (although, personally, I like to have a good balance of buyers, sellers & renters, which gives me a good feel for the overall market). 

Away for the buyer to have constant communications with the owner and real time updates with regards to their purchase, removing the agent and the real issues of communication delays and human error.. 

Creating a well rounded business with multiple income streams is absolutely the way to go.

Rockstar agents know (and constantly improve) their value proposition / competitive advantage, know their target market, and know their avatar client.

I was still skeptical and constantly reasoning with myself to do more research in order to get comfortable enough to pull the trigger on considering to buy a home.

It seems that the tenant pool is constantly changing with the local environmental variables.

Benefits of that 2 family would be:better chance of fire for insurance payday1 unit goes vacant you are still bringing in revenue while turningThere is a never ending stream of clueless OOS investors that will give you 70k for the property if you want to unload because they read an article in treehuggers press about Detroit being the "Comeback city"Tenant base will only be marginally worse than you would find in south warrenNOW - lets just give it a few minutes and Travis will be on to tell you I'm wrong on all of this LOL!!!

We constantly had vacancy and the units were harder to keep filled.

The cost numbers are generated by the state and are updated frequently as cost of materials and labor constantly adjust.

Some are quasi-governmental, others private, and still more pure governmental, but they are businesses with revenue streams, assets, etc) I find it exceedingly unlikely that they will accept failure and cessation of their proven and profitable business model at the hands of a technology that has existed sufficiently since the advent of webinars.