I agree with @Justin Abdilla's approach as these situations can be emotionally driven and may become legally challenging.

I have been reading forum posts, but am hoping to go a little bit deeper!

Another reason we don’t want him digging up our yard.There have been other issues with this neighbor,....they are very emotional driven!

I’ve been wanting to get deeper into REI for many years, and I have finally lined up enough equity and cash to where I’m comfortable taking the dive.

Investors tend to not spend enough to acquire their first deal, not working based on numbers and calculations, injecting emotions into your marketing instead of data, quitting too early, and just not putting in the time and effort into learning paid traffic.Now I'm guessing you don't have a large budget to work with, so if your only spending $100 a month on AdWords, don't expect a deal or even a lead for a while.

Another emotional pro of cash is that it makes people move quicker!

It is important to be able to analyze the trailing 12 month financial statement of a property and take a deeper look at the loss to lease by examining the rent roll.Ideally, you are lucky enough to have an excel version of the rent roll provided to you by the broker or the owner you are interacting with on your potential acquisition (or.. if you or someone you know is developing a character recognition software that is able to read a PDF version of a rent roll and convert it to a nice, clean excel version please let me know!).

And, of course, it takes time and emotional energy when a tenant starts the downward cycle that ends in you needing to get possession back. 

Leave your emotions and ego outside once you pick up that phone.

I like to have a concrete max offer and cash flow worked out before offering, it takes the emotion out of it.