And then decide what it will take every quarter, month, week, and day to be able to achieve those goals.

I spend a total of probably 5 hours a week dealing with tenants and property management related duties.

If they do delay payment by weeks / months, which has happened with horribly mismanaged localities, what recourse will you have?

Luckily I have a good relationship with another concrete guy and he squeezed me into his schedule the following week.

Instead of wasting 20 hours a week on your phone or TV, work a part-time job to accelerate paying down the debt and saving. 

Today my broker said he was emailing and calling them for 2 weeks already but they will not budge!

  :) Yeah - I have an appraisal in hand for the property, that was completed just a couple of weeks ago, that is substantially higher than the asking price.

It’s been on Zillow for a week.

No free weeks, no reduced deposit, etc.

In fact, someone just called me last week and had a non-performing rental package that they purchased in the same fashion and the prices they bought at, considering the actual condition and historical performance of the properties was too high in my opinion.