You have to possess the ability and desire to navigate it.

We have the ability to prove and back up everything we say.

Unlike REITs, direct real estate provides control over management decisions and the ability to leverage financing for higher returns.

@Kyle Atans  for me for the younger investors or starter investors is  at least use that 100 or 200 a month positive to paydown debt at an accelerated rate it will save them a ton in the long run and if they can get them paid off in 10 to 15 years that's a good thing.. its not like saving 1200 a year is going to materially affect their ability to buy unit number two and if its that tight not sure owning rentals is that great of investment anyway.

Other areas constantly threaten to curtail the ability to use homes for str whereas sevier county is based on the rental of cabins and they have zoning that can never be rescinded to guarantee it. 

i.e. longer than normal vacancy, bad tenant screening, poor maintenance, skipped rent payments, etc.There could be a handful of reasons why it lost it's ability to cash flow.

Not only would you effectively be giving up your right to proceed by way of non-judicial foreclosure, a very messy judicial foreclosure sale might not succeed and even if it did, ability to pass title would thereafter likely be subject to borrower's statutory redemption rights.

That'll affect your pre approval and ability to buy. 

I have a Breville (around $300) and it's big enough to cook a full size pizza or whole chicken, it toasts, has convection ability.

Unless you have the ability to grow your portfolio to probably 7+ doors, you’re never going to positively cash flow.