Yet lastly, should I manage to invent time travel and avoid any paradoxes going back to 2005, I'm 6'2", 44 years old, hopelessly out of shape, but I want to suit up for Tokyo 2020 and win the all-around gold in women's gymnastics...Sorry, Simcha, but the "you can do anything you want" ra-ra line gets to me.

Not sure what the draw to wholesaling is .. could not think of a more risky way to get into the business.. granted some do well at it but its no better than blowing 50k at a guru seminar.. its all the same.. spend money on direct mail do al lthis and that and end up with nothing at the end of the day.. what ever happened to getting into a career and working your way up... somehow that message got lost.but there are enough wholeslaers who do well that it keeps the dreamers coming on thinking they will wholesale of ra while until they get enough money to buy and hold.. is that not how it goes ?

Smith, RA - Principal Architect at Architect Owl PLLC (Licensed in NY & CT)

The rentals need A/R, A/P and Purchase Orders in the other Wizard.

My sophomore year, I was an RA (free room & board) so I had experience managing "tenants" and I guess this was my precursor to being a landlord. 

@Kirk R. A

Quote from @Malkia Ra: I've rented/listed my MTR via both third-party booking sites (they screen) and self advertisement (I screen).For tenants that do not book through a site, my vetting process is no different from what I do for LTRs; application, background check, etc. and the tenant pays for the screening. hello!

Originally posted by @Jen R.:A

the 2nd association it resonates is the highly consumption-driven society we live in. in my area (coastal, urban southern california) i'm surrounded by 2 distinct lifestyles. there's the majority: seems like 95% of the local population who are renters, driving luxury cars, sporting fancy clothes, jewelry, hairdos, etc but obviously living paycheck to paycheck as exemplified by hardly a day somebody or the other is spotted  getting their car repo'ed by a camera crew. the rarer are the landlords, who in this area seem to be of mostly asian demographics (chinese, koreans, japanese) who live obviously very frugally: old 80s model sedan, oldfashion business cloths, always eating simple meal from home, seemingly never splurging $$$ other than into expanding their portfolio), my observance is relatively very few landlords in the area own relatively huge portfolios, each.with the advent of these infomercials and the internet (ie, BP) more and more people want to get a 'piece of the REI pie' and more power to them. there does seem to be this dream of rags to riches and while its ok to dream, do most people actually expect their life to turn around like that, as portrayed in most of the infomercials or even in the everyday setting where the masses living paycheck to paycheck, are spending their last expendable dollars not on depositing into savings acount, but blowing $20 on scratchies etc. in summary, is my observation reminds me of my days when i worked on wall st and the 'ra trace' was so obvious with dime a dozen stock brokers makin 6fig salaries at some point but blowing it on recreational drugs apparently costing thousands of dollars a pop to the point the next week they are broke again and that $ wasnt invested but wasted.  

I had wanted to buy much earlier but I had done so much better being an ra living rent free in campus.