It's difficult here to differentiate between giving good advice and advocating mentorship programs, workshops or courses to advance your one on one activity and thus speed up the learning curve and timeline to reaching and stretching your goals.I personally have gone the journey from DIY wholesaling, flipping, seller-financing SFR and international Short Term Vacation Rental management and then arrived at commercial multifamily and self-storage real estate syndication due to the fact that it offers the maximum scalability, economy of numbers and at some point truly leads to passive, residual income and thus to time freedom and choice.Send me a colleague request to kick the tires, set up a call and get a few burning questions answered in real time, one on one. 

I went to go look at a flip once in a "transitioning" neighborhood.... didn't take long for a crazy guy to come approach my realtor and explain in great length and detail how he'd burn the building down if we bought it.

My buddy had 8 units locally but got burned out because he tried to do everything himself from the management to repairs.

Wait for the right pitch...a fat pitch.

It's 2 story. 1 side (1 unit) is burned and the other isn't (some water damage where fire dept hacked through wall). 

Much of the cost of renovating the unit will be borne by me, and a fair amount will be now covered by insurance; the carpets have burn marks, the walls have got large brown areas, doors have been kicked in, there will be lost rent due to re-hab.

Sure, they tell you to "build your team" but they never mention that you're going to have to go through the experience of getting burned quite a few times in order to build your team.

Is it burned?

I have thought seen some nasty forest fires started by laymen trying to burn wasp nests from their eves.

I made money but then got burned when our family friend financial advisory made some stupid decisions with my money.I sold a lot of stock to buy my primary residence in Los Angeles.