There are no secrets to this business, no magic formula and there are no substitutions for experience, education and deliberate focused action on the right things.Bottom line is you are going to pay for your education sooner or later and the longer you wait the more it will cost.

Deliberately choosing to increase income or lower the expenses that were necessary and ordinary to run your rental is loan fraud, plain and simple.  

I see lots of rehabs and new construction by private investors, what deliberate efforts and plans are ongoing by the city to improve that part of Atlanta?

A deliberate lie is 'gross rent is 10k/mo'.

But, there are "document sellers" that deliberately understate the compliance requirements.

You called non-paying tenants thieves, @Heather Frusco , and if Cheesecake Factory DELIBERATELY isn't paying rent, then it is, per you, a den of thieves.

Hi all,I am deliberating whether to put an offer on either of these properties, and would love your advice.The first is house I'm absolutely in love with!

The principle holds that 10,000 hours of "deliberate practice" are needed to become world-class in any field.

Another option is to sell the property and have a much large amount of money to put towards another property.While increasing your level of debt on a property has be done in a careful and deliberate way, I find having more cash available gives you more options to seize opportunities. 

You need to be a little more deliberate in how you're locating agents.