If we built a spreadsheet of the overall responses from the Mafia and how many were veiled attempts at business, I would bet it is close to 80 percent.I know I am not the only one annoyed every day, so please post your thoughts here so BiggerPockets can review them.I do know someone who bought multiple properties with a former Mafia member and the properties are still performing so this isn't a referenda on how good the agents are.

The fastest way to scale and the way that I have been scaling now is by doing multiple BRRRR using hard money loans from Wildcat lending and literally just refinancing them into DSCR loans. 

I've told him no multiple times, that I'm firm on the agreed upon price since he had time ample time for due diligence and if he wants lower, then I want to void the cancel the sales agreement so that I can put it back on market. 

I own multiple beachfront/Gulf Front properties and and some rates actually went down this year.

In my opinion (what I learnt from my tech partners) is to Build multiple source of referrals to your website and make your website an information hub.

Sure that's fine but.... the owner said he used multiple bank accounts to collect rents and thus can't provide the 3 years statements since they bought 2022 so not 3 years.

The other has experience with real estate with multiple units, however, is way behind on up-to-date systems and technology. 

There are multiple big companies coming here to the Columbus area such as Intel,Google, and etc.

A real estate professional can use real estate losses to offset W-2 or other income, but you would need to meet both the:1.750-hour rule – You must spend at least 750 hours per year in real estate activities.2.50% rule – More than 50% of your working time must be spent on real estate.Since both of you have W-2 jobs, it might be difficult to meet these requirements unless one of you dedicates significant time to real estate.Another option could be buying multiple rental properties.

In fact, appears you are from Dayton, OH, I'm in Cleveland and I speak in Dayton area multiple times a year at various real estate investment clubs and groups.