Just as a hammer and a saw are tools for the carpenter, money is a tool for the Real Estate Investor.

The only thing is, i got told by the neighbors that the owner left on bad terms and let his son go in with a sledge hammer and hit some of the walls 

Maybe try a youtube series of a mentor mentee training showing a journey to convince the television people that the audience aren't idiots who need a soap opera with hammers.

NY is tough, still has very high taxes and Rochester gets hammered with snow during the winter months so that’s another battle.

Do you want to swing hammers, hire contractors, remodel distressed property, or do you want other people to do it for you??

We cracked open the door and a decaying odor smacked us in the face like a sledgehammer.

And presumably, the debt I had would mean that, once liquidated, the assets would have more equity for my family to inherent than if I never had the positively leveraged debt.To me, debt is just a tool -- no different than a hammer or a microwave oven.

The internet is a truly powerful tool, but again for me it is just A tool, like a hammer or a screwdriver.

You must drop the hammer on them and stay on top of them.

I did what most of the younger investors I see these days on facebook and such which is pictures of all their cool vacations and their first high end car and their new big home etc etc.We kind of did the same thing from our 30s to our 50s but unlike probably 80% of the folks on this site we were fully engaged in RE in 07 08 and took a brutal beating in all aspects of our holdings from rentals to development to new construction it all got hammered. so we spent the last 10 years building back up.. but for me its a lifestyle if the GFC had not hit not sure where I would have ended up.