I have been researching the Huntsville market for some time now, and one day I realized that there were a lot of rental listings on Zillow that had been sitting for more than 100 days, which is a red flag to me.

The team can follow later when you realize what professional you need at that time.

A lot of the people that built big portfolios quickly - and then wrote books or built YouTube channels - can lose them just as quickly when they realize they don't know how to manage what they've got, a loan gets called due, or whatever.I recommend you network with other investors and spend time with people that have more than ten years experience and that did it by saving and investing wisely.

You buy the house for "a deal" and then someone comes and buys that deal from you, pays you a spread, and doesn't realize they could have bought it for your deal, ten days earlier?

However that is a long time to just wait, maybe get your RE license and help people buy and sell homes and mabye you'll realize its more fun than being a property manager. 

STR and MTR investing is a different animal all together taking you from housing to hospitality and requires more of a time suck than many initially realize. i personally only do long term rentals and students. i do have a property in mind and making the connections to transition it into a sober living home. excited to see how that shakes out. 

Realizing that I have far higher expectations for myself than most people do for themselves. 3.

Now you have the money but you still need to say no to almost everything because if you don’t that 10 million might be gone without you realizing where it went.

Plus, once you get the cleaners to that level they will realize that they can simply start their own companies and take home more money.

We bought a property the end of last year that needed more work than we realized, so we started gathering estimates for rehabbing the property.