Activities such as: - Searching for possible rental properties - Attending real estate seminars or reading real estate books - Meeting with real estate agents and viewing properties - Meeting with mortgage brokers with regards to getting loans on properties - Travel time to and from the seminars and your property searches - Preparing your bookkeeping and tax information for your rental properties - Time spend buying or selling properties (i.e. signing the closing documents) - Studying and reviewing financial reports (Investor-type) - Preparing summaries or analyses for personal use (Investor-type) - Monitoring finances or operation in a non-managerial capacity (Investor-type) An important note to the investor-type activities mentioned above is that these activities can only be counted towards real estate professional time if you are involved in the day-to-day operations or management of the activity for which you perform those tasks.

Call the local drug task force or similar entity.

It was a little intense going through the due diligence process on 4 properties at once, but like someone said somewhere, most tasks are just 5 or 10 minute tasks you can do with a computer or phone, so it really wasn't all that bad.  

Seriously, you should look at what tasks you want to do with your phone and see if there is an good app for it.

Naturally, when parties to a transaction that have incentive for something to happen (commission, profit) or not happen (i.e. foreclosure, bankruptcy) have to deal with an appraiser that has specifically been tasked to give an unbiased/independent opinion (the appraiser doesn't care if the deal happens or not) there will be many times when the parties to a transaction will be disappointed.

I think that I can increase the value of the property by doing some small tasks, such as landscaping the front and back yards, staining/replacing back fence and some upgrades in the house.The market in the area is very hot right now.

I have a WORD document for every VA task.4.Time yourself.

If things stray too far from where they should be, we'll be here to keep things on task.

However, the hardness of the task is what drives me, so if it was easy, I might not have the same tenacity for the work involved.

For the real estate salesperson working for a seller, the task is to find a qualified buyer to purchase the client’s property.And the most important part the Transaction - The real estate salesperson’s duty is to help navigate the transaction through the entire escrow process to final close.