For success in any endeavor and creating common goals in humanity to concentrate on advancing civilization and being at peace. 3.)

It doesn’t address market correlations and characteristics for example such as if you had a geographically diverse portfolio but heavily concentrated toward growth markets, you would almost certainly get hit if growth markets took a hit even if you bought 3,000 notes.

I gave up the job I hated (i wasn't as fortunate as my brother is in that regard) and cash flow for me is where I concentrate as that's how I pay for date night!

Interesting to hear about the AC - I know one thing I'm going to struggle with is not adding all of the things so I need to concentrate on learning what features will add enough value to justify the cost in my market.

This time around I am concentrating on flips, and have 2 homes I'm flipping at the moment.

Some areas you can concentrate your efforts in are 1) Ruskin - New amazon warehouse employing several hundreds of people here2) Lithia / Fishhawk area - Great schools but beware of high CDD + HOA + Property taxes that'll eat into your COC return3) Winter Garden - Booming market in orange county, has a new hospital and several new business coming up.  

Or should I just walk away and concentrate on renting the one property we have under contract?

That way you can buy a duplex, tri-plex, or a 4-plex and get the tenants to pay you your mortgage payment usually.I would concentrate on what is average for that neighberhood.  

And talk about predatory, points on my sale price, not good.As to originations, there are many RMLOs out there who think they are compliant in doing seller financing, actually not from several fronts, their employer/broker must have such loans in their charter, insured and bonded lenders aren't covered with equity funded notes, and if they do any volume they may have loan concentration issues of high cost mortgages, this goes much deeper than what our newish loan originator testing goes to that they learn and it doesn't even go into underwriting!  

I am new to Real Estate investing from the Cincinnati and Dayton Ohio market and am interested in concentrating on one area first.