I am very conscious about spending my 24 hours per day as productive as possible.

My guess is though that as you and I suspect it is the "flovor of the day" as you say and a pretty bad flavor at that. 

I can say that I was not present for almost an entire year with my kiddos... but I can now take them to school, take off a wednesday and make it a zoo day as well as many other cool perks.

At the end of the day, as others noted, real estate is capital intensive.  

If you're looking to add 100 potential clients to your database, chances are you already have this many (or way more) in your phone contacts, email contacts, and social media friends/followers.If your conversion rate as a new agent is .5%, you'll need 200 leads in order to close 1 deal.You should spend at least 30 mins a day as a P-T agent to generate leads.

But I can't control every element of the neighborhoods I'm in, and I'm in those neighborhoods every day as a known quantity, the handyman landlord who owns multiple properties in the area.

Get creative if you like but end of day a property is only worth what someone will pay.

I think many can be easily overcome like finding an attorney and contractors in the area, but the most interesting challenge I can think of is how to hire someone to deliver late payment notices one day a month.

You also want to look at your liquid reserves because as you buy more rentals more PITI reserves are required and a Heloc can "Never" be used as an asset or for a PITI reserve.If you evver have any questions feel free to reach out I enjoy talking REI and I deal with them every day as  Banker.  

(which also means, we need to raise NOI 30% just to break even at sale).At the end of the day, as an LP, you need to take everything printed in a syndicators deck with a grain of salt.