At some point they do shut stuff down when it becomes unprofessional or personal attacks.

First of all, I didn't start this thread to attack the professional tradesmen, but sometimes it gets to a point where even if you want to pay someone for a job, you end up DIYing the last 10% (or 25 or 50) of the work whether it be additional damages, debris cleanup or poor workmanship.May be this is unique in South Florida, I am not sure.I have a long list of pet peeves, but I will just mention a few here that I noticed that seems to happen almost all the time.For example, whenever I hire someone to do work outside, say painting, stucco plastering, landscape, pest control, anything that involves borrowing your garden hose to dilute, mix, rinse...they ALWAYS find a way to deform the hose ends - by stepping on the connection, cross threading the connection, dropping the nozzle, clogging the nozzle, and they NEVER turn the hose bib off, they just release the nozzle handle and leave the hose pressurized. 

You and I cannot comparison shop when we have an attack of appendicitis. 

-Is it even possible to start with 1K bank roll and possibly attack lands as residential seems out of reach?

Debating a pass through labor charge of 30 minutes to change a lock (when you know it should only take 10 minutes) will just give you an early heart-attack.

If you bring potential tenants with you they are less likely to verbally attack you during the showing.

Hello fellow BP folks,

I’m Los angles based and need some advice on the best next step to take. Here is my situation.
I rent and work in LA and like most folks here, am tired of paying rent but the market is high he...

Another 1/3rd into other Investments outside of real estate, and then up to the balance 3rd into shorter term real estate deals like trust deeds or equity shares in rehab flips and/or development projects allows the Investor to keep a good portion somewhat liquid as the short term development deals, at least mine, have 6-12 month terms with double digit returns typically and can be rolled over to the next or pulled back after you term out.So to reiterate, diversify is the best plan of attack in my humble opinion.

(One had been sick for a while and the other had a sudden heart attack) I guess the lesson is to have your affairs in order for your families, because you never know when you time is up.

Also, you need to worry about attacks from "inside" (like tenant suing you) and from "outside" (like, you crashed your car into someone).Once you have more properties and more equity accumulated, then you need to look into more advanced means of asset protection.