It's mentally taxing work, but I'm pretty darn good at it.

Getting people to 180 their norms and thinking by explaining the benefits is not something they are going to reverse without major mental hurdles to jump .

This involves:1 - Breaking away from a home owner mentality with regards to money and investing.2 - Using "$$$" for analysis, and eliminate almost all use of "%%".3 - Learning, and following, the 2 Golden Rules of REI...to be succesfull4 - Understanding the meaning of this number sequence, 1073741824, and how it applies to REI...that's the start.

I grew up in what I would a call “C” class mentality household and although we never trashed a place and in fact my mom would shampoo and repaint before we left, we typically got evicted due to late or missed payments(personally I haven’t missed a due date on a single payment since I was 18). 

I also work long 12-14 hour days for my job and its important to get yourself right physically and mentally before investing. 

That's a lot of money and certainly a big OUCH, but my mentality was just like OK it will be done and I don't have to worry about it.  

Examples of such work or tasks include guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding a person with mental illness to take prescribed medications, calming a person with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) during an anxiety attack, or performing other duties.

This isn't a post dedicated to excuses per se, but rather its about barriers (both mental and financial) that I need to overcome in order to expand my real estate portfolio. 

Numbers you can always calculate (estimate) but the crew you will need to do the work, the time it will take, potential permits, with this kind of project  you need to make sure you are mentally ready for it (just saying for next time). 

I want them to start mentally preparing to make the move.