This time although I felt ambushed and some mental anxiety, I feel secure knowing the last 4 years I had prepared for this season.

Lol lol For buy and hold see the business model paper off my profile 1st paragraph called bulletproof rental portfolio.A deal calculator is useless if you don't have a business strategy.After 40 some by and holds not even a calculator is needed it's mental math and yes revolves around the approximate 1% rule or whatever represents a good deal in your area.Like I said too much emphasis is made on complicated spreadsheets that account for every expense under the world and that ultimately kill good deals.

And very little mental strength to put a deal together at the time.

Many of these books you and others recommend are probably motivational/inspirational (I.e Think and Grow Rich, or 10x growth) and meant to give us a 💪🏾 mental strength that will get us through the trials and help with blocking out negative Nancy’s, boosting us into the realm of the successful thinkers.My question is how do YOU protect YOUR energy 🔋 from negative family/friends, harassers, haters, and just general bad vibes?

Prepare to unload and change to stricter mentality if things aren’t worked out once things are back in motion and eviction courts are caught back up.

Hey Account Closed, I dont know where you are from because you have not filled out your profile, but in Texas there is a little bit different mentality when it comes to someone trying to sleep in your house.

I understand this is contrary to all good real estate investing advice, but just accept I have a mental defect that will never allow me to accept borrowing money and go from there. 

Again, very helpful to get someone with more experience's opinion to check my mental model.

Benefit of lease option is that your "tenant" now has more of an ownership mentality and you can even contractually unload maintenance and capex expenses to him/her because he/she will eventually own it.

I originally used several paid and free management softwares, but they still have an old school mentality.