One of my goals is to ensure I'm devoting at least an hour towards my financial success which I usually exceed by far but haven't figured out a way to track it.

He devotes a whole chapter of his excellent book talking about this issue).The dirty secret is that many sponsors pitch (and many probably genuinely believe themselves) that their promote compensation structure (a preferred return and then a split of profits between investor and sponsor) is aligned with their investors.

I know our real estate office has an area in our printer room devoted to advertising home inspection, warranty, staging, pest control, handyman, move-out cleaners, etc., so maybe drop off a few flyers perhaps offering a discount off your normal service fee to local real estate offices. 

This is a very fertile topic to which many legal scholars have devoted their entire lives.

There are a lot of reasons why people fail in this business -- and they are the same reasons that people fail in other businesses:- They didn't know enough going in- They were under-capitalized- They didn't have a plan (or at least not a realistic one)- They didn't execute well- They didn't devote enough time/energy to the business- They weren't detail oriented enough- They didn't manage well- Etc...Real estate is no different than any other businesses -- some people approach it correctly and do well; other people treat it lightly or don't have the raw skills necessary to be sucessful -- and fail.

I do have a few items on my plate for the business and will admit I have not devoted enough time to research the non-profit idea, but I do really like it and glad you recommended it.

We have an entire group devoted to real estate syndication.

For those that buy and hold for the income, how much time do you devote to your business?  

At that level I would probably be devoting my time to some philanthropy, helping others and traveling, assuming I was even remotely close to retirement age.

I have some friends who started a new podcast devoted to only women in real estate investing called the Real Estate InvestHER show.