You will need discipline to do your prospecting and take the steps to build your business. 

Allegedly the children of one unit are bullying the children in another unit and their parents are self disciplining the other units children. 

I’ve always just been disciplined so I just wait for the right deal and 99.5% don’t make it.

residential home and multifamily is two different things. you can control your environment with a lot of discipline. i recommend spending a good amount of hours reading and listing to podcast, then on your days off check out the properties you interested in investing. you can learn really really fast, you can be above average in a few months depending on how much work you willing to put out. also what is your financial situation, and how is that first investment do for you if it goes wrong. it is all relative, if your market is cheaper and you can afford to buy and hold without needing cash flow. there's enough tools out there you can quickly learn to minimize risk. if have a good profession, i would recommend buy at places not where you want to live, but areas that you don't want to live, it usually yield a higher return. i am not talking about the ghettos where they have shooting every night, but hard working class that just trying to put food on the table for their family. if you doing single family and try to minimize risk by doing your homework, you don't need all these people. just start slow, one person will recommend you to another and you will slowly find people that works for you. you can't build a team if you never work with them, you have to go through the pain of getting burn by people and you will find the one that will become your team. good luck!

You would need the discipline not to charge up all the cards again -- then you would have both CC's & 2 mortgages.

Passionate, disciplined and meticulous.Background:4 year NCAA Ice Hockey player.

Call it a financial discipline tool in that sense if you like.When you pay on schedule via normal payments you take around 2 years and $20,000 in interest to pay down $10,000 in principal.

If you don't have the ability to save your own money to begin you do not have the discipline to be a investor.

That's why tenants stay tenants, especially living in ugly areas that they could, with even a modicum of financial discipline, move out of.

The key to be a high performing agent is to be disciplined enough to say "no" to clients who aren't ideal for your business.