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Stick to your budget going in, or at have a trusted person with you to to help think through whether new information or other rationalization has you inclined to bid more.2)  value your time:  On an individual deal basis, I see people who are attracted to time freedom via real estate/cash-flow/passive-income sinking an awful lot of time into evaluation and pursuit and monitoring and decision-making.

I point around the spotless unit they're standing and as we sign the lease I say "as you can see we try very hard to keep our places nice for you (here they usually make a comment about how much cleaner we are than others they looked at which only reinforces my position) and we want to to keep them that way so the next people can have as nice a place as you do today and we have good people like you wanting to live here and in our community.

I used my first property to to leverage private lending, collateral and proof I can renovate and manage a rental. 

The most important part is keep an open mind and let questions answered lead to more questions.I have always been able to go into the city and across the counter ask enough questions to to have a comfort level and move forward with projects.Here is an example of keeping an open mind.I was looking at a single family, zoned single family.

(Seems like a large task for him to live up to).  To

I am currently able to to seek outside employment as I have a predictable work schedule now, no duty days or anything of that sort.

I would like to to see if anyone here has had success in getting NOW business as well as future business using this technique.

Get to to the local forums, 10 deals a day postedAll the best 

Well, you should have made the purchase contingent on the units being vacant.Since you didn't, you have to to go by the terms of the existing lease, assuming that you 'bought' that too with the tenant.