are two essential ingrediants to a successful sign campaign.

@Marcia Maynard same here, I am not changing my rental criteria or lease now, but the document provided some possible ingredient I could use for my rental application form in the future.We do run into retirees and students with no income here, so having some set procedure put in place helps. 

So selecting the location is a crucial ingredient to your recipe for success.

You should try to realize that one key ingredient of becoming a REI, is to get your cash leveraged and working hard for you.

What are the specific steps and "ingredients" that you need, or should, do before purchasing your first property?

You need to get familiar with marketing Marketing is the KEY ingredient to being successful.

Not in a cult, but those who blindly obey authority, wear masks that don't prevent a virus and take an experimental drug (vax) without knowing its ingredients or side affects are all part of a cult.Let's bring this back on topic about the issues surrounding market trends and affects on Real Estate and investing.

The older you become, I suppose it's fair to say the more short cuts you may look for, as long as it doesn't replace an informational foundation and it will still require hard work -- the main ingredients in success.  

Finding private money and forming good partnerships seems to be the key ingredient I keep hearing on BP. 

The key ingredients to the mess here:  a homeowner in default, a wholesaler, an attorney or two and an agent or two.