High standards and ethical practices will build your reputation.Shifting your mindset to treating real estate investing as a serious business is fundamental to success.

Rather happily so I might add.While you may not use the specific sentence "I am a Guru" Ken, you speak to and rather clearly work to convey that messaging to persons while at the same time CLEARLY have exceptionally low comprehension of a great majority of fundamentals and factors of real estate investment.

The #1 FUNDAMENTAL FLAW I see self-managing landlords and way-WAY too many PM's do is NEGLECT the entirety of the BUSINESS of things. 

This post explores how leveraging technology and sustainability can not only future-proof your investments but also contribute to a more profitable and responsible real estate market.The Digital Revolution in Real EstateTechnology has fundamentally changed how we buy, sell, and manage properties.

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the strategy, so if you're willing to listen, I can clear it up for you.You're not putting the money on the HELOC and letting it sit there, you're basically using the HELOC like a checking account. 

Work provides a lot of benefits that are fundamental to human fulfillment.

Man, I'll take 18% CoC anywhere I can get it, provided the deal fundamentals are solid. 

Because you simply can't afford to build product to rent for $1000/month)In a rational and well-educated environment, investors are willing to deploy at 5% cap for such fundamentals.

While the housing market may experience short-term fluctuations, I remain bullish on real estate in the long term, especially in markets with strong fundamentals and growth potential.

In business, references and jobs done also help too.Handymen per CSLB are prohibited from taking on projects that are more than $500, unless they can either break the project down into smaller job or risk going to jail -especially if they furnished something recordable (ie, a phone conversation or in writing) in violation of this fundamental CA rule governing construction.So yes I do agree CA handymen should never quote a client anything more than $500/materials+labor per particular job unless they don't care about building a career towards being a licensed contractor honestly and dont care if they end up being criminally charged for it.As for a family member and/or close friend I would expect handymen in CA to obviously work out 'less than armlength' ways to help them with big jobs that do exceeed $500/project but not leave an obviously incriminating papertrail afterall its family you're dealing with anyway and nevertheless as a handyman (and likely brother, cousin, in-law etc) until one day you are a licensed contractor then can quote as much as you want per project.I'm tired and done with CA handymen masquerading as contractors, quoting contractor prices, yet not having even liability insurance that licensed contractors are required to have.