Lots of people get burned buying triplexes in the city

I feel like a condo would allow me to: 1) Get experience and my foot in the door with little capital.2) Protect me from getting wiped out by an unknown capex expense.3) Potentially house hack.4) Not feel bad about burning money on rent. 

Good college football is about all they have to offer and staying warm by the river as it burns.

That is another place where new investors get burned.

But for the vast majority of investors the burn out caused by high evictions, violence, domestic abuse, unemployment, life crisis of tenants, intentional property damage, drive by shooting, illegal activities, use of weapons, police raids, police neglect of neighborhood, etc. results in investors desperate to "get out" after about 90 days.  

If you burn a seller, there's a 50% higher chance either he owns something else you're offering on or he knows the seller or his attorney knows the other attorney, broker knows about your past deal, etc.

I ending up burning some money for the things you described (NAR membership, brokerage fees, quarterly MLS charges, etc), just a lot of things I found I wasn't getting any value from, I decided to simply put it on full stop and take a year to really reallocate and figure out what I needed to do.

I am pretty sure they give free consultations to explore your financial position and current cashflow, to see how Tardus could be of help to you and if they would be a good fit for achieving your goals.I have been looking at Tardus and one of my primary questions is how they identify "fast burning" vs "Slow burning" fuel.

If you don't look at them before buying in person, you will get burned at some point and regret it.   

Look at PM like homeowner's insurance- it seems like you are wasting money until your house burns down, they you'll be happy you "wasted" money on those premiums for years.