kevin, i agree with you...my business will be at a standstill until i can trust someone and also part with the money that i'd need to pay them..that being said...i just finished a rehab and put it on the market, i'm finishing up another in a few weeks, and starting another one in a week..at the same time, i'm completing a rehab of an apartment building, and as these apartments come available for rent, i'm the one that takes calls and shows the apartments to prospective tenants...at the same time, i still collect rent door to door from all my other tenants and handle maintenence requests...and i went to the driving range the other day as well :) point is, there's plenty of time in the day to do many things if you get your crap together and try to stay focused/organized...all the books say to build a business and hire out, but i don't think that's realistic unless you start with deep pockets...after a few years, sure, you can do that, and i look forward to doing that in a couple of years myself..but for now, i don't mind doing everything and saving that 40k i'd pay a fulltime employee :) i think i'll grow my business more by saving that 40k each year and getting to reinvest it, rather than paying someone

A trusted contractorIf it's #3, you should still have either #1 or #2 checking in at least once or twice a day, as no contractor is going to be as trustworthy as you or your representative.Personally, these days, we have between 1-5 flips going on at once, and have long-term contractors who we trust.

In the end of the day, as R. 

Killeen has been much tougher than they used to be back in the day.  As

Granted I have to be there 40 hrs a week, but heck, I am now doing RE and mortgage deals in about 1 evening a week that before I just went to my office for every day. A

At the end of the day, a wholesaler is only as good as his list of buyers.The best of the best deals will not be found on the local MLS.

At the end of the day, a REIT is a equity just like Apple or GM.

The bigger problem is that they leave large land mines, and anyone who has one Great Dane, let alone two, needs to be picking up the yard virtually every day. A

That said, I have a passion for real estate and want to build a very successful real estate empire but as they say “Rome wasn’t built in a dayâ€, but I will get there I have no doubt about that!

Otherwise you'll just be winging it and you'll lose the case, or worse you'll get sued for malpractice. ha ha....Just get the course and listen to it each day as you drive too and from work.