I've personally achieved growth from Dale Carnegie's book "How To Win Friends and Influence People" and choose to revisit the teachings at least once per year. 

It's a great shame to the reputation of BiggerPockets someone like Joe, with a glaring lack of financial and investment acumen, can present himself as a knowledgeable person, post over 10,000 times, and influence others' decisions.

You will learn so much about people skills, and you will realize how much influence you have on how a given interaction pans out.

Our long term goal is to build a portfolio so thinking about acquiring our first property with a long term lens influences our thought process.

Cash flow, market, your credit score can influence your rate and leverage with DSCR, or commercial loans. 

Your numbers will also be influenced by the type of end buyer you're dealing with i.e.

You can influence from within.

In fact, if you only look at cap rate and cash on cash yield, with no other influence on returns (rent growth, appreciation, etc), then real estate isn't that great of an investment. 

@Katie LambDon't bet on hyper inflation, economists don't fully understand inflation and what influences in larger economies yet.

Home buyers are very easily visually influenced.