I believe Joe was simply expressing how scammers and or wolves are everywhere.

Every new agent and many agents with experience have the same feeling of being overwhelmed as you express in your post.

Often it would take 90 minutes to travel from our home to Anaheim, using the 91 express lanes. 

Then, name it whatever your credit card name is such as "American Express."

I should note this is a value-add project for me so I'm ok to spend money on cosmetic updates because it should merit a significant rent spread.One positive is that the other six tenants have been very patient and have expressed gratitude that I'm trying to fix the problem.  

You can see the expressions if you say "Yes we have one in New Britain."

Then we are not carrying around all this crap that causes the drag.I'm not really a counselor or anything but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night

You've heard the expression "knowledge is power," and when it comes to real estate investing, you need to know your figures.

A cheap sales pitch that tries a "takeaway close" of "our program is wait listed" before anyone expresses interest?

I mean the SMART Bus on Gratiot is known as the Heroin Express.