His job salary didn't really warrant what he'd spent on his car, so I just said he didn't meet the credit score criteria, and he understood and moved on. 

Initially, I didn't have much time during the day because of my job, but here's what I did: In the evenings, I spent 2-3 hours putting together a list of cash buyers I found on Google using the (Google Ninja trick I learned from realestateskills on YouTube).

@James Wise you have spent an entire day trying to 'prove that you're right and I'm wrong' in some way and even gone to the extent of asking others to come in and side with you to somehow discredit my opinion.

All that time could have been spent on building a business. 

When furnishing my first STR, I leaned towards cheaper goods as I had just spent a ton of money on the acquisition, and learned my lesson quickly.

Some counties in Virginia loves them because they have little employment so no big population increase = more burden on schools and the tax basis is very high because of the personal property inside of them so they pay a lot in taxesAs you mention need to be near a power source and I spent 5 years trying to get one approved in 30 acre parcel that the county wanted the site for something else - so they can be challengingTo get zoning approved

Most of my adult life was spent working as a Firefighter/Paramedic.

I just spent a few weeks shopping for insurance policies on a Houston metro rental - it's really tough right now. 

I did't ask for reimbursement on this one, but consider the example consistent with the general quality of the $3,000.00 spent on leads so far this month on on ISpeedtoleads.com.  

Every additional dollar spent yields less return than the previous dollar.That stopping point is also market specific, and class specific.