Take a look at BP's blog where new articles are published every day: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog4.

Mindset is key and just know that this is a business and you would be actively seeking clients and every day you wake up your working for the paycheck you receive in 30-60 days.

It was never intended to be a speculative investment vehicle for excited real estate brokers and other everyday folks.

Every day different person calls saying he is taking over the property from previous person.

Everyday that the property is vacant you lose money that can never be gained back.

Been there and done that too.Used to manage 20 units with Section 8 while owning 10 units of my ownAfter 3 months I saw how much more time I was spending on the Section 8 tenantsThe 20 units took up about 4-5 hours of my day EVERY DAY.

Take a look at BP's blog where new articles are published every day: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog4.

If you are getting a long term rental, you may have some upfront work, and then whenever a tenant move in / out have some work, but typically for long term rentals you aren't touching / doing things to it every day. 

Kinda hard to tell when someone leaves if they're always on the road anyway (I think I saw him once after they started renting) and I can't be there everyday to monitor the situation and they don't tell me otherwise.

The money being borrowed from the bank is "every day people's" money.