While reading over the local real estate news this morning, I stumbled across a headline that made me do a double-take and drop my spoon into my bowl of delicious honey nut cheerios:Sacramento Not On List Of Best Markets For Buying Single Family Rentalshttp://www.capradio.org/articles/2017/03/23/sacramento-not-on-list-of-best-markets-for-buying-single-family-rentals/"Sacramento is not the most lucrative real estate market for people who want to get into the landlord business.If you want to buy a single-family rental, you'll get the highest annual return in places like Atlanta, Baltimore City, and Pittsburgh.

I have a tenant that broke a garbage disposal by continuing to use it with a spoon stuck in there until it burnt out.  

Could you pay someone to take the work out of it and spoon feed you the info, deals and relationships?

If you are with a brokerage that has bi-weekly meetings and you attend these meetings and some other trainings, you can get spoon fed with more relevant market and industry data as opposed to if not, you will have to be self-motivated to find the data on the internet. 

Get a degree in something that you have an interest in so you'll be 100% engaged and not a passive participant being spoon feed info because you think it will help do something in the future.

The instructor practically spoon-fed everything and she got us involved so it wasn't just straight lecture.

Shop your community banks for portfolio financing and then spoon feed them. 

Bryan HancockWasn't born with a silver spoon, not even a plastic one, and 800 properties later I've had millions of debt.

I'll take someone who's come from financial difficulty to a place of prominence over someone who's been spoon fed everything they own from birth any day.

It's a lazy mindset to expect the world to spoon feed you.Of course wholesalers should only market good deals and should be knowledgeable and transparent.