I will also personally make sure that the 'live in property manager' fulfills those responsibilities religiously and gratefully.

Contrary to popular belief, they do not want to own your building.  

I think it would be of benefit to our entire community to find a detailed description of a recent flip, complete with numbers, pictures, and more, here in our real estate success stories forum.Lastly, It's my belief from the tone of your post that you intend to follow the letter of our terms of use but perhaps not the spirit of the community here.  

While I have no doubt you believe you're better versed in TREC/TRELA/COE rules and regs than me, your belief does not trump reality.

Decide on a couple of areas you think you might be interested in and follow the sales religiously. 

Contrary to popular belief, they are still buying and the big ones like Blackstone and AH4R are holding their portfolio's.

I've listened to podcasts religiously, met locally with some amazing people, been completely inspired at meetups, and trained myself to analyze deals and run the numbers. 

I've had a limiting belief that you had to have a lot of money to get involved with investing. 

So I started going through the MLS religiously. 5.  

 Today i summoned the powers to knock on 6 doors of some leads I had. This may be a little out of place but i'm of the group of people that more times than not, place my own obstacle in my way by negative thinking and...