You just need to relax and be more pliable with your model.

However, to answer it, and for you to understand where I am coming from, one must put everything down, step back, relax, and pay attention to the business's functionality. 

Nothing too wild and crazy, just peaceful, relaxing, and low key.  

Nothing is as relaxing:-) has worked on the zoysia lawn in he backyard, the fescue in the front is still weedy. we will plug with zoysia next summer, I am tired of the water and maintenance fescue needs.. zone 7B.

Do you really think you can wrestle some hardened, muscle macho thug to the floor?

The relaxed SEC rules and the CF part of the JOBS act has much more impact on small players, IMO. 

I currently do much better than 6%, but I’m trying to be conservative here.Even with relaxed estimates on the real estate side and more conservative estimates on the stock side, here is what I’d have at Year 30: Real Estate: ~$450kStocks (some investment at 6%): $623kIf I use the historical rate of return for the S&P 500 (9.8%), I have ~$1.3M at Year 30.

I then blow their mind when I say yes if your client approves a land contract then I’m pre-approved, the point I’m trying to get across is investors are a small group of ppl buying RE compared to the end users buying at regular circumstances, mortgage, escrow, inspection, etc….. so for me to be efficient and do my business fast, easy, relaxing I became a realtor myself, it’s still Hard cause I have 2 or 3 realtors a week that only sell million dollar houses and ended up helping a friend sell a low priced rental area home and fumble at ever process or question I throw at them. 

It's helpful to get this drilled into your head early, as you'll build up a mental muscle to avoid spending money on depreciating assets.

@Grace Carney Hello and welcome to BP, a great place to work your out your investor muscles.