I have some good part time students and on occasion an early career tenant sharing with students.

I do agree that stocks can be more hands off than RE typically is but I have known some stock investors who spend more time on their stocks than it would take to manage a decent amount of RE assets.I have used margin on occasion (mostly to avoid selling stock when I have removed capital from my investment accounts) but I do not consider it equivalent to conventional financing on RE for a couple of reasons: 1) The RE conventional loan rate is much lower than the margin loan (conventional RE loan is typically over 3% lower than a margin loan) 2) The loan on a buy n hold is paid by the renter (i.e. out of the cash flow) and not out of the appreciation versus the stocks the margin payoff is only materialized via the stock when the stock appreciates more than the rate on the margin loan.For example if I purchase a stock on a margin loan of 7% (which is a preferred rate for larger margin loans or better customers) I require the stock to go up more than 7% to obtain any profit.  

Generally houses and land are owned together except a few rare occasions.

On several occasions, I have signed multiple LOIs and walked away from all.

This means I have met with them on a number of occasions to build the relationship. 

I spoke with Tony O'Brien on two different occasions; and each time was with a different company.

We typically deal with single family homes but do get multi families in on occasion. let me know if your interested in being added to my buyers list!  

buy beach front, get rent, and maybe enjoy it with the family on occasion.

An individual that we had engaged on a small gutter project and been involved during the purchase of the truck - I had the outlook as essentially functioning as the 'capital provider' and going in together on a business - as he had gutter and exterior maintenance experience.Let's just say it was a bust.I'm not always the easiest person to get along with, but on two separate (and important, and close together occasions) I was essentially stood up by this 'soon to be partner.' 

HOA called "A" and left voice mails in two different occasion.