Using a hard and fast rule will help you weed out some of the lower-income applicants, but I've chosen to review them on a case-by-case basis.4. 

I would have chosen a place that wasn't so convenient however if I could have had the amenities with a slight discount for the loss of the convenience.

I would also suggest a consideration of how scalable your chosen strategy is/will be given how much money you anticipate investing in RE as it might be more efficient to go through 1 or 2 transactions on larger properties versus half a dozen or more transactions on single family homes depending on your goals. 

Who helped YOU to garner knowledge in your chosen niche?

One layer of protection chosen by average investors is a land trust.  

They aren't trading (selling) a player, because they don't own the player that may be chosen with that pick, and that would be wrong.  

A Montana tenant advocacy group got them quasi-outlawed a few years ago (technically they could still exist, but have to be specifically chosen as a default option by the tenant).Up until that point they were relatively enforceable, however some judges really didn't like auto-renewals and would rarely, if ever, enforce them.  

But I went full force into learning what I had to to be a success at my chosen craft.

I thought this was something that would help in my REI career, but after talking to a couple people and seeing the reactions of others on BP forums, I have chosen to not spend that time resource.

They managers don't want to deal with people in general, but due to this relationship, they have chosen to pass them leads on MANY people who want to sell their mobile homes.