No what's essential is a strong self-motivated work ethic, a natural passion to learn all about the business, the personal fortitude to fail 99 out of 100 times and still talk to you next lead like it's the first one and last but not least absolutely no morals.

Does everyone have the personal fortitude to make it work? 

And based on many of the snarky comments here, kudos to you for having the fortitude to put your questions out there.

The emotional fortitude required only gets more difficult from here.

At this point they would have been better off going the HomeVestor route since they WOULD vet them out and might have saved them all that money if they didn't have the actual fortitude to follow through (even if they had the cash).Looking again at the Fast Food model most mom and pop burger joints fail and most McDs do not.

If you are lazy or lack the fortitude to deal with problems then let it go and live with the inconvenience.

You state that you seek less drama, avoid damaging a relationship, dealing with tenant requests, all indicators of some lack of intestinal fortitude to operate your business.

Done intestinally with a plan to screw landlord.

You have a strong fortitude and I wish you the best in the future!

You will be called upon to deal with any number of things that will test your intestinal fortitude and if you can’t make it past the easy stuff you will be utterly paralyzed by the day to day issues that can crop up.Once you get insurance and a CO completed, that’s ball game.