In the military camps in the Revolutionary War, he & Lafayette argued to end it, with Layette said that the replacement for it, would be modeled on what the Dutch had set up, along the Hudson River, for big farms there, of tenant-farmers answering to the owners of such Hudson farms, & done before 1664, when Britain conquered New Holland, but left much intact, as it had been with the Dutch.

I’d consider a little further outside of the Bay Area or teaming up with other investors to conquer your first deal. 

Hey @Benny Gelbendorf ,I start with my home market (Minneapolis) Keep it simple, if you can't determine if your backyard is good/bad, identifying great/terrible neighborhoods then you can't conquer another neighborhood across the country.As for metrics, I go with yes/no to simplify rather than a 1-10 grading system.Are jobs coming to X market?

I can not even imagine how you went to not even being aware that "own" was a thing, to having the "stones" to actually closing on a property in ONLY 8 years.It seems to me that conquering FUD dragons (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) is the real story, especially getting started. 

It was a long battle to get to this point and winning her over but the tougher battle was to conquer my own fear.

He had a magnificent plan, to conquer as far he could go with his army.

What area of this RE game are you going to conquer?

I recommend self managing at first so you conquer the learning curve, and can later realize if a property manager is BSing you or not.As an agent who focuses on commission rebates a lot of my clients are newer investors like yourself, and I have seen those who start small and scale after learning to have more long term success.

divide and conquer?

The information posits that one can become "free" only if they do a few things; (1) conquer fear (2) unhinge from the "wage" mentality (3) delegate, delegate, delegate (3) cross-references item (1) b/c any successful person builds an ongoing "cycle." .