Weekly local meetups or Zooms allow you to connect one-on-one and learn about people and build investor relationships that become the backbone of your investment lifestyle.

Small business is the backbone of this great country and there are plenty of states who understand that fact and show appreciation by helping them, not hindering them like CA does. 

Marketing and Sales are the backbones of wholesaling as the major components of The Wholesale Cycle.

If my assessment is correct and things do slow, how this plays out in your local market will depend on what the backbone of jobs are in that location. 

It always seems like the contractor doesn't have a family to feed and bills to pay.Don't ever use anything as hostage to pay them.Blue collar workings are the backbone of this country.Great Post!

I'm a person who likes efficiency.Just looking for some answers to help give me a stronger backbone in this time we're living in with things being tougher for some families.

They will be the backbone of your BRRRR team.

Will you have the backbone to push back when the tenant says the HOA rules are too strict and unfairly targeting them? 

although the other side of the coin is your money is spread over many different loans.One investor one property has been the back bone of my business model in the notes and HML that I have done the last 20 years.Prior to that when I had a large HML company in Oakland CA all of our loans were fractionalized Deeds of trust.. the loans even in the mid 80's when I was going strong were already at 350 to 500k per and it was very difficult to find one investor that had that much money or wanted to put that much into one deal.But yes your point is quite valid.

I have pretty good tenants but when issues arise, how stern is too stern? I try to never become too friendly with my tenants but after stern emails, I often feel like I come off too harsh and then feel bad afterwards...