Don't get me wrong I love my country respect the men & women who have fought and died for our freedoms.Ever thou two nights ago three punks ran up on me at a gas station (in a decient niegborhood homes values 150K & up)pulled a gun and demanded I give them them my $$$.

Bought seven houses and a grocery store when I was in my early twenties with no down payments and without a clue.Just did it because nobody thought I could (and Jimmy Carter was watching his world collapse around him what with foiled rescue attempts and crashed helicopters in the news.. damn waste of good men..)Gave all them houses up getting rid of the ex wife but I got better and got the right wife this time and she saves my money instead of spending it so now we have stuff.

One of them flushed those little green army men toys down all the toilets causing overflow and pipe damage.

Some of these companies act only as "middle men."

Military towns attract a criminal element. 18-20 year old men that have a consistent income and few responsibilities are going to entertain themselves.If you have strippers, you get hookers, you get pimps, you get drugs, you get theft, you get gangs, you get murders etc.

I've been reading back and forth, pros and cons, and just knowing the person that I am, I like to just cut out the middle men as much as possible.

You need to also take care of the following. 1.Fixing up a vacant rental so it can be rented out again.a.We had handy men to do most of this, but with 40 rentals my husband and I had to pitch in a do the labor ourselves as well.b.I would paint the house and garages.c.Husband would fix the repairs inside2.I would take care of the tenants.This entaileda.Taking care of advertising the homes (usually we had more than one vacancy at a time)b.Taking phone calls and screening tenantsc.Scheduling open housesd.Staging the housee.Interviewing the applicantsf.Making sure I double checked their application formsi.Criteriaii.Employersiii.Verifying funds and income3.Typing up the lease and making sure they understood the lease4.Then making sure the Tenants abided by the lease agreement5.Paid their rent on time6.And sent that Notice to Quit for Non Payment of Rent the very first day rent is late.On top of that I did my own evictions and I never lost a case and I dealt with the 36th District Court in Detroit.I won because I covered my butt by having everything in writing.I documented everything.Every phone call I made to them and every phone call they made to me.I never complained to a tenant because they called regarding a repair.I listened when they told me they couldn’t pay their rent, but even though I understood their problem, I made them pay their rent anyway.Landlording is about making tough decision and doing things you don’t like to have to do.Landlording is a Business.DO NOT LOVE YOUR HOUSE.I can’t stress this enough.If you don’t know or understand that this is a business of evictions, damages, and injustices, and fixing this house up over and over again, you aren’t going to be happy let alone successful.How I wish I could be there for every new investor to help them understand what it’s like to be a landlord BEFORE YOU INVEST.But I can’t and that’s really a shame because it something every new investor should dig into before they invest.One last thing.

I’ve started an accountability group to help men and women level up their real estate investing success while working a  W2 job.

In addition, quite a few of the Money Show episode guests are woman: perhaps she will be able to relate to these concepts when spoken about from the mindset of a woman.There was one show, and I can't remember which one it was, that the guest was talking about the differences between men and women, how women are more afraid of risk and leverage, and how she has overcome that in starting a real estate business.

The women in my family are stay at home moms and the men worked their way up in factories.