this feels like a great first step.I am 33, recently married (this summer) and I think that's putting a bit of a sense of urgency to getting started.We are currently renting in Queens (Long Island City), but am also on Long Island a lot and was thinking to maybe start investing there.I own a small business which has been good to me for since I started it 10 years ago and since it allows me to make my own schedule I think it's a great fit with what I want to be doing.A couple of years ago I made an investment in a new construction (residential/rental and commercial) building which is going up in Astoria, and am hoping to get my initial investment back in the next 6-8 months.

How to create urgency without turning off the sellers?

He probably won't agree to your $100/day but at least he will understand the urgency you're trying to create.

Unfortunately, I am caring for an ailing mother and sister stricken with ALS ergo my sense of urgency.

Here's a piece of HELOC advice - stay far far far away from Tri Counties Bank - they do not know what they are doing and lied several times to us over the course of our loan process - also took close to 6 months to close even though we always provided them with exactly what they needed immediately - they had no sense of urgency on their end and had conflicting stories about why things were being held up.

The summer will prove difficult but if you create the urgency, students will stay for a 12 and 24 month lease.

This agent is obviously providing bad service but short sales are a pain in the butt and there is really no urgency unless foreclosure date is within a few days.

I will try to get as many people there at the same time as I can to build the sense of urgency and show that the home is very popular.

Screening is the big one really as we are unsure of how or what to do when screening tenants due to the fact a broker has always done this for us (hasn't seemed to work that well in the past)The next area of improvement is billing to tenants for CAM charges, also how do you deal with maintenance on the buildings if it is not triple net, even if it is triple net how do you place urgency on the tenant to initiative to make the building an A or B class building if that is how they received it.Thank you all, sorry for the rant but just looking for advice and input.

Not urgency, but importance.