Most of the colors and accents were chosen by our friends and families who voted on instagram and facebook.

Seasoned investors could also refer to it when pitching an investment opportunity to potential lenders (i.e. to provide reassurance of the chosen rental market) and/or to keep their finger on the pulse of their current investment market.I like the idea of being able to choose your own thresholds for metrics.

Your chosen career will serve you very well as you begin your investing journey and will open the doors for all sorts of opportunities.

Things I am doing: Listening to a podcast daily--chosen near random because I know no one, but everyone has been amazing.

That's much more important than assets chosen.

What do you guys do about notifying applicants that they were not chosen?  

I know in my chosen market with absentee multi family owners having 60% equity I had over 500 contacts.

To dollar-cost-average over several real estate cycles.Anyone who had done that over any significant period of time in recent history -- regardless of the time period chosen -- would have fared very well.

I've chosen to use private funding for my first property.

However, carefully chosen and negotiated, you will be obtaining a reasonably steady cash flow with limited downside.