The last two months have consisted of me eating a poverty diet, not having fun because I can't afford to go anywhere, sleepless nights, having to ponder selling my car just to make loan payments, and seeing about $25k of profit go out the window.So what would I have done differently...1.  

I’ve seen a lot of fads come and go in the ag market, I’m not certain that hemp is any different. 

Not only following fads whether it's getting a Dalmatian or Husky because of a movie or TV show, and it just sounded cool, but perpetuating the fashionable fear thing to be afraid of.

No matter what the new fad is out there, there are plenty of people that want to deal with an actual person cash buyer that can come to their house and make offers.You need to market yourself the right way.

I had some 12 paks of diet coke that we'd bought on sale a few months ago.

Hopefully if you got into real estate investing, it wasn’t on a dare or because you were following a fad.

Kind of like the latest diet pill will melt pounds off your butt.

Storage units were a fad in the 80's everyone it seemed were listening to the gurus telling them to buy a storage unit business.

Truth is, I've identified sources that boil it down and I get most of my news in under three hours a week.In fact, this post has inspired me to do a Tim Ferriss LID (Low Information Diet) again.

I think there are just as many "portfolios" to mimic as there are fad diets or exercise routines out there.Of course, I haven't even gone into individual stocks, ETFs, etc.With real estate, the rules of thumb are pretty simple.