Books and podcasts are full of survivorship bias, since we don’t hear about the folks who, with hard work, effort, and grit, failed and left, only the survivors get to tell their story.

Within less than a year she's built triple the cash flow of our dog walking business and real estate combined, and seven figures in equity.

We've taken over properties with owner horror stories about their Flat Fee PMC letting their property sit vacant, or with a nonpaying tenant, for months without doing anything about it.So, where does the line get drawn between the focus on an owner making money and a PMC making money in the context of trying to align both parties' interest as much as possible?

He has some great stories.

I hear the same story about how the general economy, my length of time owning the business, etc are reasons credit unions (same ones who were on board before I bought the brewery) are now not willing to finance. 

It would be great to connect here with a few folks, hear your stories of how you got started, and learn how to take that first step. 

Now, whether we can actually get that offer accepted is another story.

Have another great story that doesn't fall into one of these categories?

A tenant complaining online might indicate that the property manager handled them appropriately, so be sure to ask the manager for their side of the story.7.

Told this story here before, we bought a property where the seller had been in a bar fight and had a judgement for medical injuries from the other person in the bar fight.