Lack of reservesThe one enabler I would add to @shiloh lundahl advice is if you don't have sufficient reserves - partner with someone who does.

It will just take longer to accumulate a portfolio enabling you to retire. 

It wouldn't be a surprise that in nice neighborhoods almost every household would have a stable paycheck enabled by WFH. 

Tesla and Electrify America buildouts enable substantial coverage.

This enabled us to turn our old house into our second longterm rental.

Brookfield’s new fund, for example, purchased the two-thirds stake in mall giant GGP Inc. that Brookfield didn’t already own.Brookfield’s scale enables it to get returns “you simply can’t get if you’re an individual investor buying an individual mall,” said Brian Kingston, chief executive of Brookfield’s real-estate arm.Blackstone’s global co-head of real estate, Kenneth Caplan, who declined to comment on the fundraising, said markets are fickle and whether or not there are opportunities to buy “can change pretty quickly.”Some funds are setting less ambitious fundraising targets.

I am not aware of the specific text that needs to be in my contract that will enable me to leave a deal at any time.

There are financial strategies that enable you to leverage your investments while diversifying them - for example, having $ in stocks and using that asset to collateralize a loan for real estate.

I've got it set up to enable the tenants to pay online, submit maintenance requests, etc., through the tenant portal.  

More important, if you have to send out 1099’s, an entity will enable you to use its FEIN instead of your social security number.