Too many people try something for a short time and are looking for the magic bullet strategy but the true winners in real estate are those that do one thing a bunch of times over a long time periodHope that helps!

  ( keep buyers from wasting money on DD i suspect)3.

If the applicant comes from the pool of people that I or my tenants know, I use real estate as a way to give back as many of my tenants will not qualify credit wise or may even have a criminal background or would struggle for another reason if I were to just stick to the "background/credit check" criteria. 

There isn't really a lot of people looking to rent a 3500sqft house and that may translate in longer vacancies.

You can also check meetup.com or search Facebook for real estate investment groups, clubs, or meetings in your area.You're feeling FOMO because you see people all over BP, YouTube, and Instagram bragging about their success.

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

These folks also tend to have all of their income and expenses going through a separate bank account so they just need to look in that one account to get everything organized.Self Managed, High Volume, Not Organized at all - this is the type of people that stress out over tax season. 

It saddens me to see millions of people strapped to their jobs, trying to protect their holy grail 401K, until they are 60, and then start taking their "distributions", having a couple of decades left to live.

This is a real estate group so I’d assume a lot of people own a lot of real estate.

One other thing that people in their 60s can consider is - if you are planning on taking Social Security and making passive income part of what you live on, rental income may not count as income against your Social Security benefits.