When I told him it would be a very bad time to sell the mortgage notes as there were almost no buyers, he said he didn’t realize we were investing in non liquid assets?  

But, once you do build some wealth and have a high income, you realize how much you can save/make by owning the right real estate - numbers that far exceed any cash flow you might make on a property. 

I am interviewing property management companies in Columbus and ran upon Realize Property Management Company. 

Let me tell you, there's nothing quite like the feeling of closing that deal and realizing that you've made it happen.As investors experience the profitability of our deals, they become more than just satisfied partners.

Do you realize how expensive vacancy/turnover is?!?

Its an old house that would need a renovation, so I was thinking about how I would add rooms to it and realized I'm pretty clueless about it. 

Eventually I realize that when I think about living on post-expense rental income, I’m treating the income as the “withdrawal rate”, in Boglehead parlance.

@Jonathan Carter I looked in a lot of places and I realized that many laws and rules can be interpreted in different ways.

And for example there was a Crowd Street deal (Nightingle) where the sponsor omitted losses from their claimed track record (and ultimately was fraud...they never even bought the claimed property).And there appeared to be some difficulty or confusion with obtaining the full and complete track record ( including both realized and unrealized deals).

I have no experience in real estate investing and don't want to waste my time in something and then end up somewhere else down the road and realize I should have started there.