Debt or "leverage" only enables you to buy something that you otherwise could not have afforded.

Being responsive to requests and providing a high quality of customer service is quite difficult when you’re managing over 100 different properties and tenants and the income generally isn’t great enough to enable the property manager to hire additional personnel.Why is property management of single family rentals such a difficult business? 

Real estate has enabled me to build that freedom.

all of them are just excuses that enable them to stay complainers and not moving to the next level.IF you want to go to the next level you will always hear its risky (it is), Im not sure you can do (They aren't u and dont know your capabilities), the market is tough (thats good that means the lazy people aren't getting deals so you have to work at it).As the saying goes excuses are like buts, everybody has one and they all stink.IF the numbers make sense for you then go for it.

The minute you flex your contract by accepting a late payment or not submitting a 3-day pay or quit notice after the agreed upon grace period, you add skepticism to your agreement and cloud it... enabling judges to question the actual "new" agreement and validity of your original contract.

Knowing what they want and where will better enable you to search for those specifics.Go to your county recorders office or a title company and have them pull all cash transactions in your area.

Because you will hold a property for many years, what happens after the first day is far more important than what happens on day one.Financial IndependenceIn order to have financial independence you need a income replacement equal to your current income that also meets three requirements:Inflation compensating: Rental income keeps pace with inflation, enabling you to pay inflated prices to maintain your standard of living.Persistent income: Your income will last so you will not run out of money.Reliable income: Your income continues even in difficult economic times.Unless rents keep pace with inflation, your time off the daily worker treadmill will be short.

If you have a lot of funds in Ameritrade (a million +), you can enable margin and, in a way, be your own bank.

Investing out of state enables you to tap into different markets besides yours.

@Priscilla Z. can chime in, if she’d like, as that area is her specialty.My initial thought in buying in Brevard from a distance, was that the area is close to the N-S highway, as well as the E-W “beach-line express” connecting to Orlando and Tampa, both highways enable easy transport.