Where ever you invest, have a boots on ground person to bounce ideas off of. 

I've found this immensely valuable as it gives you someone to bounce ideas off of while still making all of your own decisions and having control over your own investments.Phew, that was a lot.

Say you get to 100 doors under mgmnt, then drop to 80, up to 95, down to 82, and keep bouncing not really able to ever scale beyond, hitting a "wall".

but the emails they have are absolutely terrible I'm learning (high bounce rate like 50%).

Thank youAnantTwo people who both don't have experience investing in a specific market 'teaming up' is a bad idea assuming you mean to buy a property together.If you are talking about bouncing ideas off each other, I think that is healthy.

If you're keeping the properties all through the downturn and collecting cash flow, the prices will eventually bounce back up and your ROI will go back into positive territory.

Right now, I find myself bouncing between analyzing short-term rentals, then long-term rentals, and then creating financial projections, only to come face-to-face with reality (how accurate are my projections, and are my expenses underestimated or overestimated?).

I am currently looking for local young aspiring investors like myself to bounce ideas off of, talk real estate, and maybe partner on a deal with each other some day.

Each time i received a generic response or kept getting bounced around to other reps.

I grew up in Newburyport and now bounce back and forth betweent Charlotte, NC and Seaport.