@Colin Ford Spend a good amount of time building your team in Florida.

I spend most of my 20s living on both sides of the river in Saint Louis.

Instead of being transparent about it, you had me spend a bunch of money on things I shouldn't have since there was no intent on closing the deal.

Sometimes people get paid and if they can pay their rent immediately they will but if they can't they may be tempted to spend it elsewhere. 

Everyone knows who the new person is and the goal is always to mess with them and test them and try to get them to spend their money on the junk so we can get the good ones. 

They usually spend one day going through the property checking everything for a couple of hours and move forward.

Even if a software is free or cheap, it's the time investment getting things set up and then tweaking it for the first few months that is the real "spend".

With less experienced or just poor planning operators, it isn't uncommon that they spend years distributing all the cash out to the owners, and then the time comes for a multi million dollar refresh to maintain the hotel brand, and no one wants to cough up the money back into the entity.

New York is hard to evict people and you'll end up spending more time and money doing it yourself.

I'm completely lost at why people would spend money on class and workshop, when they can actually use that money and go find deals a bit outside of the expensive city we're in. $8,000 could got you started on a deal, or do a mailing list of some kind.