Probably the biggest things for me have been getting extremely comfortable with wood construction and it's limits, exposure to HUD financing, and really just how to trim the fat during design in order to keep costs down and avoid going through VE later.

But then they mentioned they are waiting for leads.... and I figured the problem may be saturation.

Yeah, it sounds a little to saturated.

Every year i have to write a fat tax check, its because i have an even fatter bank account. 

Apply that money that you would be spending on a new car to marketing your self as a new agent in this already saturated industry/ markets.People are more interested in the service that you give, they will be more inept to work with you if they know you are hard working and are working towards a goal.

But.... when you have a fat paid off rental portfolio, you can do better in paper securities (cap gain tax effects not included) because a really good ROE on paid off RE is only 7%. 

When you land a fat one you’ll be crushing it.

If my underwriters do not see pricing, they leave 10-20% of fat on the quote.

I would consider flex space or some kind of commercial, residential is over saturated 

Disney was on my list but figure it was too saturated already.