I was using my marketing software to purchase lots of discounted properties instead of really figuring out how to truly help the sellers.Lesson Learned: I learned the hard way that your mission statement shouldn’t be a plack on the wall, it should be the blood that moves your company.

Valuable lesson to the son in law and the CEO investor will likely still be willing to work with you in the future.It's a tough situation and makes my blood boil hearing someone screwing over family and one I would probably want to have a heart to heart with the person first.

Like the sideliners, who are waiting for the market to crash - and don't realize that if buying scares you now, you won't buy when blood is in the streets.Renters are the biggest losers.

I'm sure they'd rather be robbed by a nameless, faceless internet scammer than their own flesh and blood.

If income grows faster than rent then the home appreciation can still accelarate rapidly especially when city inventory is reducing....Also the very basic component of home appreciation is money being circulated and not primarily the income in that area.

Do your background check on people because a scammer could be lurking in the corner waiting for fresh blood. 

If I'm going through the blood, sweat, and tears to build this team, it makes more sense to me to do it in a solid but relatively steady market with decent returns that will be"investable" for a long time as opposed to chasing a growth market where if correctly identified I have a short window to make huge returns before the growth pushes it outside of my investment parameters and I have to start all over to move to the next up and coming market.

You can't squeeze blood out of a rock, and you can't cash flow in neighborhoods where investors are happy making money on depreciation and tax write offs.

You don't need to get the cats life history and blood type! 

Don't laugh but beside your name it says donor...of blood???