Aside from crossing fingers for luck, it is very difficult to be successful if you don't have a business model and philosophy where you can see your business model and philosophy will give you the end results you want.My point for saying that is; you can argue with me and tell me I am giving you crazy numbers, or my business model won't work in your area, but you cannot be successful with my business model if you cannot; 1st) see that it does work and 2nd) see how you can make it work for you in your area.There may be a need to change the type of properties so that you have better tenants, or maybe you ill make only 20% of what my numbers portray, but even a 5% increase is something that should not be ignored.

I also have a great relationship with my banker that lends me the hard money, as well as a mortgage broker who does the refinance for me and I don’t lift a finger.

Keeping fingers crossed! 

It looks like the engineering schools focus a lot on the subject matter but not much on being in your own business as engineer - consequence: huge engineering firms, which will charge you a fortune for lifting a finger.

As in what they bring to table financially or that they've done their homework and research is based on more than finger crossing..

I fold the wad the tenant gives me over my finger and count it out loud in front of the tenant, "Ten, twenty, thirty, yeah, yeah, bring it, seventy, oh mamma, ninety..."

I am a Florida license realtor and soon a Loan originator (just waiting on my finger prints/background) I will be happy to help you.

People ask this question so often I wrote a blog to save my poor fingers from typing the same thing over and over.  

Once you get some of the always slightly caustic drain trap fluid on your fingers, your fingers soften up and the skin abrades easily on them.

We need to keep our fingers crossed that the government won't take away our 50% exemption on capital gains.