Interesting timing of your comment @Jay Hinrichs...I have been the "newbie willing to do anything to get help from a mentor", only to end up sorely disappointed in the direction of that "opportunity".

I often see the opposite where people are eager to do a deal and manipulate the details to try and make it work or use inflated best case assumptions that happen only 5% of the time.Everyone in the JV is then disappointed when it doesn't happen that way. 

I have to admit that I'm a bit disappointed that it wasn't something that she mentioned to me when she gave me the offer.  

I'm usually disappointed in the outcome when I do this.  

There were several good clubs in the SF Bay Area, from where we moved recently, so I've been a little disappointed by what I found here.FIBI is a network of clubs.

Christopher;I forgot something, its not going to be easy all the time, there will be disappointments, times you just want to say beep it and give up.Don't ever give up, I can guarantee you one thing if you give up, NOTHING.A quote from whom I do not know, but it has helped me;It’s is not the critic who counts, nor the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done better.

I have a dilema and felt like this was the best place to turn for advice please do not disappoint!

So far, the market has not disappointed me.

But I am so impatient for financial independence having worked for other people for many years and running into all sorts of tricks and disappointments.

Yes, I work downtown so I often saw on zillow, trulia and those apps, properties that were so cheap I could either buy almost all of it cash in hand or make a very good downpayment, but I was disappointed to see how not welcoming the whole area was, and I didn't think I'd want to start off with difficult tenants.