That owner is already dreaming of being gone - he’s mentally out of the house and the last thing he wants us the “burden” of a tenant when all he wants is out.

I'm trying to break free from the latter and got a good boost in motivation by attending Rod Khleif's boot-camp in Baltimore last weekend.

In addition, I can feel your excitement about REI, but make sure you equip yourself mentally for the long haul as Real Estate Investing isn't a get rich quick scheme.

I get frozen in that mall and mentally exhausted for 45 minutes.

The return from rent and market appreciation gets a boost from basically fixed property tax due to prop 13 (In many areas a property doubles in value, the property tax doubles in value but not in CA).4) House hack. 

You can also post on your page and then boost the post with advertising money. 

If your parents had a scarcity mindset and mostly consumers then the mental leap is far greater for the children when they become adults .

Personally, I would rather expand my mental database than rely on that of someone else.

., TV commercials, radio ads, motivated seller website, SEO, pay per click/adwords, facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, and other forms of online advertising and boosted/promoted social media postings.Bottom line is consistency.

Apparently, the tenant’s mentally ill son (who had been staying at the house illegally) trespassed into another neighbor’s property and they beat him up.