And I will do whatever it takes to keep this connection nurtured fat and happy!

It's called the "fat cat syndrome". 

Or incompetent.Or, as is often the case, relocated and someone living in the subject property but not paying the taxes (or rent) while fat, dumb and happy.Your most valuable skill will be skip tracing; finding people who have a record ownership interest.

Probably the biggest things for me have been getting extremely comfortable with wood construction and it's limits, exposure to HUD financing, and really just how to trim the fat during design in order to keep costs down and avoid going through VE later.

Gene

Every year i have to write a fat tax check, its because i have an even fatter bank account. 

But.... when you have a fat paid off rental portfolio, you can do better in paper securities (cap gain tax effects not included) because a really good ROE on paid off RE is only 7%. 

When you land a fat one you’ll be crushing it.

If my underwriters do not see pricing, they leave 10-20% of fat on the quote.

I was at a KW event with Gene Rivers this past fall 2017, someone you probably know well in the KW world.