The better you think thru the WHY the better chance you have of attaining your goals.

I have what I believe to be a practical plan to attain it but it is a goal.

I'm still buying to hold in the lower price ranges, but staying nimble and turning over rocks that the HFs don't even know about are producing ample deal flow despite the added competition.

For them, having ample insurance is fine.

If you have ample money to start and are committed I would go ahead and look to set up things ahead of time.

One way to ensure you work to meet your goals is by setting hard to attain goals.

If you don't hit the goals, review the goals.Setting attainable and realistic goals are fine, keeps you on track to an accomplishment, not doing so sets you up to fail, at least in your mind and it could be that you did very well and that your benchmarks were unrealistic.In RE, you might look to others in your market and see how they performed over time, how they grew and how long it took.

And, when doing tile, the finish is very important. make sure you fill all spaces with ample grout so it doesn't crumble later.

Without a doubt the biggest highlight of my occupation is I'm off 3-4 days straight a week so it also provides me with ample time to study up on BP and prepare myself for that first deal.

Yeah, the 2% rule is attainable on some deals here (Indianapolis area), but a lot of those require a lot of rehab.