. -- Don’t just be a “jack-of-all-trades" 3.

So really there's no point in griping about low refi appraisals if the trade-off is all the at-value purchase appraisals that let us close real deals. 

Such people are too risky as partners in a deal, or even as trades-people to work on a  project.

People were calling me trying to day-trade their mortgages for a while.Then mortgage rates stabilized at a point LOWER than before the fed "raised" them.So far none of the doom and gloom journalists, or realtors saying "buy now before rates go up!"

@Kurt Kline Like a lot of people are stating above ^^, their are multiple ways to save up for your first deal. yes there are less aggressive ways to save (online savings, MMA accounts, ETF's) or more aggressive (crowd-fund platforms, private money lending, day trading).

If you are living in your house for 30 years and add a new kitchen and bathrooms over the years your not going to add the amount you spent on these renovations to your home price.However, as a investor the swing works a little different.  

I feel like if I get the carpets traded out for him it'll increase the chances of him staying for all three years.

I think a lot of people are scared to step into the batters box and swing the damn bat.

I could be way off base here, and if I am I apologize, but even starting an unlisted (or non-traded/non-public) REIT requires quite a bit of capital, management, and marketing. 

It’s not ALL bad, but it’s certainly not exactly what I signed up for either.I stumbled onto real estate investing a year or so ago, not that I don’t own a home and so forth, but I never really considered using property to make money passively instead of trading my time (a good chunk of it actually) for money and coming home each night to only a few hours of personal time before I have to go to bed, get up, rinse, repeat… Thank you corporate slavery!