This has exposed the fact that we have no muscle with bureaucrats and lawmakers, unlike, say, the banking or home construction lobbies. 

Really feel like knocking on the door but was advised by attorney not too as this could cause "tension" and favors toward tenant.  

It also helps you develop your "No Muscle" and practice delayed gratification. 

You know, building our financial muscles!

There has to be some way to overlap the two worlds of business and charity/kindness/etc, but it is likely more nuanced than we think when getting into REI.Perhaps the guardrail on the other side here is:  how do we become excellent at running our businesses as businesses without becoming jaded, cynical, and closed off to opportunities for kindness and service.It's a conundrum, but one worth hashing out and holding in tension.

Im in the Muscle Shoals area and am interested!

As a fellow FIRE-walker I understand the tension and pull you may feel in this:  pay off your current debts early (so that you can be free) or put the capital to work on investments?

My theory is I might as well use my own money to buy my own prop and manage it than run around like a crazy person trying to muscle up other people's property to manage.

Prior to this deal, I was analyzing 10 properties a week to build up my brain muscles.

Too much supply within a given area can push prices down as well as cause tensions with neighbors and the local community with neighborhoods transforming into more transient destinations than family friendly neighborhoods.