Quote from @Kate Porter: Hi All!  

@Kate Daye RuaneThanks for the detailed info on Scranton!

This deep voiced man, very intimidating, starts screaming at me and said, "Hi, I keep getting your postcards in the mail and I'm telling you that I'm not selling my house for anything less than 395K!

They scream at the players and opposing fans.

In response to the handwritten yellow letter:All these letters scream "I AM SO OMG DESPERATE" to me.You go WAY out of your way to try to get leads with these letters.That yellow letter in red...looksie here:I sent this letter 3 years ago... why?

I bought his for under his asking price AND he paid my closing costs, and I gave him a screaming deal on the rent while he built his house.   

I still remember when people were screaming we're going to have hyper-inflation due to the massive printing of USD in 2009. 5 years later, we have lower interest rates compared to then.With the stock market in correction mode in the recent weeks, Janet Yellen has already back-peddled on her QE forecast.

If you check this post out, it's screaming decline across the board nationally for college and participation.

Now that that's out of the way, you don't necessarily have to be in a rush to keep taking down more properties if the numbers don't make sense, if you are unsure of the direction you want to proceed in, or if you need time to look into other strategies.Sounds like you deeply desire to work in real estate investing full time, but also feel like pursuing a higher income-earning potential as a safety net to ensure that you have the cash flow coming in to live off of as well as liquidity to make acquisitions simpler.If that is where you're at, it may make sense to shift from 50/50 or wherever your time is balanced now and go more 80/20 on your day job and lever out the REI tasks that you are doing now so that you can work on increasing your earning potential while not missing out on any screaming hot deals that may be in the pipeline.

I'm guessing you would have screamed bloody murder if he hadn't.