On top of that, you need to decide whether you want value conscious tenants or price-sensitive tenants.

I want to be conscious of the time and energy they are sharing with me. 

I started to consciously save/invest my money as I prepared myself to make my first investment in real estate.

I'm getting to the point where I am consciously ignorant about the subject and just being a sponge learning as much as possible.

The ideal location is in 5-8 minutes in a walk to the metro.The best ecology is in the northwest, west, southwest part of the city.

I think a sociologist from Germany (lived in London, kinda like Joseph Haydn) once called it class consciousness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_consciousness).

Get out to an REI meeting and start talking to property owners- all of the pieces will fall in to place if you try, learn and consciously improve. 

Very useful input @Scott Mac on the difference between 80 LPs @ $50k and 4 at @ $1MM.My bigger vision is to get to a place with back office overheads, internal cash flows, and technology that would allow passive ranch investing to be available for as low as $500/ea for retail, non accredited investors.That is the democratization aspect and the vision/values vs execution dilemma I face when testing at $50,000 vs $1,000,000.Due to the registration being much cheaper, I must go the route of accredited investors only, for now.My subjective, populist, nationalist, rural Montana beliefs deep down in my bones that still emotionally and personally influence my decision-making-bias is that what we have in Montana is 1-special, 2-should be shared without being too commercialized and gentrified, and 3-is quickly being lost.With ranches as we all know, and I fully accept, becoming only for the UHNW, part of my core-motivation and driving belief is that technology (online syndication) should present an opportunity in the marketplace to bring in more of the "Average American" to participate, appreciate, and benefit from this asset; not just for it's historical performance, but for its actual tangible benefits (the feels).Pride in ownership, sense of place, vesting/shared interest in ecology, community, and food production.First it must be an asset though, one that makes sense in someone's diversified portfolio.

The budget-conscious alternative to enrollment in 1 above would be to search podcasts and YouTube for Al Williamson and listen to everything he shares.We do this with 2 of our 7 properties and are finding some success.

However, I'm always conscious if I'm annoying homeowners.I usually message if their listing is withdrawn or just to introduce myself as a local agent for when they want to sell.