Basically, if you work in a role that is involved in one or more aspects of the rental business—be it development, construction, renovation, acquisition, leasing, property management, or financing—those skills can help you as an investor.As for your question about a mastermind group, those are definitely helpful.

It can happen but should be extreamly rare if your in a good area and do even basic qualifications. 

In theory this holds some weight in a very basic or general sense.

It’s basically a roommate who doesn’t pay rent and eats my snacks. 

Partially because most of the folks doing it are so inexperienced and solely money driven that they're not the best to do business with, and because they're basically buying people's houses for less than they could get putting them on the MLS.I've personally had 5-10 "wholesalers" reach out to me to learn my buy box.

There is no secret sauce, you can google for tax codes, you can meet with agents, you can use mortgage and rental calculators and do the basic math and you can proactively think about tenant issues and how that might affect you and your returns. 

There are lots of GURU lawyers pushing complex structures without helping their clients understand the basics. 

You basically have to play a game where you cash cow the asset for a 5 year period and sell to a non-sophisticated buyer before deferred maintenance catches up to you. investing in Nola violates to the location, location, location addage. 

Has this person submitted an application because my qualifications are strict and a lot of time the person doesn’t meet the basics so the esa doesn’t even come into play.  

Sometimes you can splice into the other bathroom circuit, depending on how many outlets it serves....Other than that, it's just basic construction stuff.