Some guys can figure out how to do one or two good deals and some guys and gals were just born to horse trade. 

I know the sales pitch is that real estate is "passive income" and it's a load of horse crap - unless you're sitting on a pile of cash and need some place to put it.

The gurus will tell you to employ X strategy or do this and that or repeat the magic words 3 times, whIle turning around counterclockwise...horse hockey!  

lol get off your high horse.

I bought a home formerly used for streaming porn and i imagine postitution and found a few adult toys that a horse would be afraid of.

Let’s say you are meeting with an old guy who has worked in a factory all his life, but scrounged and paid his house off – do you think that it might be too much horse power for him if you pull up in your beamer and world in wearing Gucci and a Rolex?

Glad to see Steven point out the C Corp issue with rentals, but hold your horses too, I have had many properties that were intended to be flipped, then the market indicates that it may be heating up and holding the property over a year turned out to be more profitable, so consider that you could buy, rehab, rent, allow appreciation to pile on, then sell it.The increase in value in your S-Corp can be at the capital gain rates, if you hold too long in a C Corp you may get hammered.

I say to those people, horse poop .  

By law, these animals can only be miniature horses and dogs.

With that, I see the old farmer in overalls, hands in his pockets, shuffeling his feet in the dirt say'n "ah, I'd think I'd better get this much for it" I can horse trade, but it always comes down to proving to them what to expect to get, being a numbers guy that is not a problem, it's how you solve the problems, even the problems they aren't aware of.