I spent countless hours educating myself, creating screening-criteria, etc. and I still made a few mistakes along the way.

“Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.”If you took the time to research global events in just the past five years, you would have learned about the countless massive protests and riots in other countries against their corrupt and totalitarian governments in China, Australia, UK, France, and many more places.

Most investors on this site are thus working with people who are smaller scale contractors, and managing your investment and asking to see receipts should be standard practice unless you've worked with someone countless times and have built up a trusting relationship.

After countless hours of research and forming a team, I now feel ready to start looking for properties.

Getting your first rehab project will require you to create a SOW, talk to contractors, compare and review bid proposals, review budgets, & make countless trips to Home Depot.​You will inevitably make mistakes and underestimate things, but you will learn 90% of what you know by just doing your first rehab!

It's not as though 100% of rehab cost projections come in and there are countless posts about "incompetent appraisers" that kill the refinance portion of the BRRRR strategy.  

After reading BiggerPockets' blog, poring through various real estate and rental property books, and listening to countless podcasts about real estate investing, I'm really eager to begin.

I'm more focused on Finding the Deals , as I've heard countless times "if it's a good enough deal, a buyer will come".

.), data could be auto loaded for the market you're researching.I am aware that, after looking at dozens of spreadsheets not only on this but also other sites, that there exist countless analysis spreadsheets that, for the most part, address a) and b) above but not the rest.If this isn't something that any of our BP members are aware of, I also wouldn't mind contributing to the development of one to whatever extent I'm able. 

Originally posted by @Shelley Gross:Do you know any California Trustees who can substitute in on a hard money loan and foreclose on a property You can scroll through the public notice section of any local newspaper and pick up countless trustees from there or, you might try Zieve, Brodnax & Steele, LLP.