I know I wouldn't have been able to handle what Jeremy Burgess has gone through with section 8.http://www.urbandetroitonline.com/detroit-real-estate/episode-29-detroit-investor-tv-section-8-no-more/Detroit has truly been a gut wrenching experience for me.

What you see on reality TV might be the most unrealistic example of this business model you could find.

That looks like something out of the TV show "Flip This House" Congrats, Beautiful job.

Type "get motivated sellers" into the YouTube app on your phone after connecting a chromecast to your tv and watch away!

You can purchase lists with different motivations like absentee owners, 60-90-120 days late on mortgage, pre-foreclosure, delinquent taxes, water cutoff, code violation, evictions, probate, divorce, etc. and mail or cold call.Other methods are driving for dollars, door knocking, wholesalers, craigslist, Realtors, FSBO sites, expired listings, put out bandit signs, billboards, newspapers, other offline publications.You can use pay per click/adwords, motivated seller website with SEO, facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, and other forms of online and social media marketing.If you have a big budget you can do radio, TV and billboards.

We are running to cabins to take care of things constantly - internet down, no propane, a mouse in the house, car stuck in driveway, guest is lost, locked themselves out of the cabin, broken refrigerator, can't get the TV on, hot tub not heating, etc., etc. 

I’m regularly on pretty “big name” podcasts answering tax questions, have appeared on National TV answering tax questions, have an Amazon best seller accounting book and was featured in one of Brandon Turners books. 

I think a lot of people watch the TV shows that show flippers making tons of cash and none of the problems that invariably come up (ok, the one problem always comes up and then they find the money by saving somewhere else to cover it . . . another fallacy). 

I had little issue with my tenant where she called one of those injury lawyers from TV ads and my insurance spoke with the lawyer and denied the claim after collecting all the evidence from me Landlord was at NO-FAULT).

Turn off the tv, fill your phone or player with info instead of beats and learn, learn, learn!