The weak mined and lazy get weeded out pretty quickly and leaves the ones that are dedicated and determined.

Stay on this site read all you can, listen to the podcast, you will find that every one is in different situations and there is not a one size fits all plan, it will be up to you to determine your strengths and weaknesses to determine what niche you have.

I would recommend this:  Take an honest inventory of your skills, likes/dislikes, strengths/weaknesses.  

SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.

I like to work to my strengths and a good team to help to help support my areas of weakness.

The global economies have such weakness this artificially elevates the dollar.

You're going to see a lot more headlines soon as the market starts catching up to weakness in layoffs, earnings, macro data, ISM/PMI surveys, and retail stocks.That said, if you spend your life trying to time markets, you will more than likely fail.

I hope to become an expert in the numbers so that I am ready to pull the trigger when the time is right.I really appreciate this site, and especially the way Josh Dorkin stops the podcast to have the guest explain what they meant by a term that may come naturally to the established investor.My weakness right now is understanding the correlation between down payments and ROI. 

Because it sounds like the investor is pretty weak and disorganized, they can't meet the  time line as agreed. 

I see this as a very weak link in most investors who buy performing notes they neglect to check taxs yearly to make sure their trustor or mortgagor is actually paying them..