It is easy to provide well-intended 'bad' advice.My questions to you would be... 1.

So I try to thank them every time for providing information I would have to pay for, if I knew who to ask and who to trust.

For short-term gains, options like private lending, where your IRA acts as the lender, can provide consistent returns through interest payments.

I usually provide our budget as well with totals spent. 

You'd hope they won't be that stupid and kill the goose that laid the golden eggs or they'll ultimately pay the price at the ballot box, like the previous Portuguese government.As is often the case, that kind of article sadly doesn't provide the necessary context to the uninformed reader - and I'm not talking about you, of course :). 

I’m passionate about learning and improving my process to provide real value to investors, whether you’re focused on fix-and-flip, buy-and-hold, or any other strategy.Looking forward to your thoughts and insights!

She provided me incorrect information and my 6% locked rate ended up closing at 9.99%.

B2B Bank had just introduced liquidity requirements which seemed to indicate they really did not want to be providing that service.TD was the last of the Big Five to offer the ability to write and hold arm's length mortgages.  

I went through similar experience when I purchase rentals from a turnkey provider in Indianapolis.

No but you could create an excel macro to do multiple properties at once - also the numbers that someone provides to me I take with a grain of salt anyways.