If you master all that, you know exactly where you are, what your strengths and weaknesses are and then if you still feel like you need coaching, reach out to them and go for it.But don't get impressed with  "being approached by reality TV, and written 2 books being a master landlord, and being awesome at whoelsaling and.. and,. and.,."

I think people are blowing it out of proportion. 2, it will eliminate weak agents from markets (In my Opinion)

They had different strengths and weaknesses and that's why it worked.

Hey Jay, I have a ranking system that annotates strong vs weak inputs on a scale from 1-5.

After posting a monthly market update for Milwaukee every month for the last 5 years and looking at the data every month and the dynamic that makes prices inch up month after month it is becoming more of a certainty to me than a possibility.Because the reasons don't change: we keep devaluating the paper dollar, we still have a chronic housing shortage and we are not building nearly enough to even keep up, let alone to catch up from the deficit we carry.

And if you go for appreciation/quality houses you need to have a plan for dealing with weak cashflow.For pity sake don’t turn on water service on a Friday.

When you tell these people that it often takes more than a decade before the investing makes things like that possible, they go looking elsewhere for advice, until they find someone who's willing to sell them what they want to hear.Building relationships, improving your lifestyle, relieving chronic anxiety, creating strong friendships, building bonds with family, work-life balance, delayed gratification, risk-reward management, lifelong financial freedom, all the really good things about REI are often suffocated under the overwhelming need to GENERATE INCOME TO QUIT MY HATEFUL JOB.What's the best thing about investing for me?

As someone else said, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.You want everyone to believe that you are so busy, yet, all your time is spent here... insulting and scaring folks off away from BP so you can turn around and call them "weak" and F R A G I L E. 

You said cash is a weakness for you in Real Estate.

But setting posts on a footing with a bracket creates a 'hinge point' that is inherently weak.