Death by thousand cuts….Could you shed some more light on your experience with REI Nation?

@Chris Kay to learn to properly DIY manage you have two basic options:1) Trial & fire on your own, hopefully not making a major mistake that costs you tens of thousands of dollars.- Once your time is more impotant to you then the cost of a PMC, you can hire one.2) Hire a PMC to guide you on your first rental and learn from their expertise.- You can buy additional properties and DIY manage those, perhaps leaning on the PMC for any issues you're not sure how to handle on your own.Good luck:)

Play Opossum ".... help, I'm some corporate slave just feeling life slipping away in my 9-5 but I do make hundreds of thousands of dollars per year I just have nothing to do with, WHAT SHOULD I DO"..... 

It is a small Mayan ruin, size of two pickups. 

Some of those facebook groups have thousands of members.

I have been a RE broker for 44 Years now.. and thousands of transactions in the tank..

We also try to keep a few hundred thousand in reserves.  

We did quite well in the Timber game in the 90s Owned many thousands of acres of Timberland during that time its a great industry one of the favorite things I ever did beat the heck out of rental houses LOL

As you know, I sold 3/4 of my portfolio (thousands of units) right before the market tanked in 2022 and I haven't bought anything in over 3 years. 

In the past ten years, I've made thousands of connections through BiggerPockets without ever having a call-to-action or sending a DM first.