Get obsessed, and be persistent read everything, listen to podcasts, audiobooks, go to meetups, network on BP, post on BP often, talk to everyone you run into about real estate.if you live and breath real estate, you will be successful: guaranteed.

Now that the seller had been offered $1000 cash immediately he was even more persistent that I give him cash.

Hi Charlie I really don't think you need to be handy to get into the market because you can have other people do the work for you (contractors) , but you just have to be persistent and having a passion for this industry.

It just takes persistence and putting lots of potential opportunities through the deal flow pipeline.

It's important for the collections person to be creative, persistent, and INCENTIVIZED. 

To be truely successful you must commit to both of you being persistant in the game together 110% of the time. 

I started to invest in Indianapolis because there has been persistent growth in the city and the population is above 500K.  

Or should we persist?

by saying something pertaining to persistence. 

It's hard in this business first starting out but I know with persistence I will find funding and I will succeed!