A little dose of reality for those anxious to "get into the game".As a licensed Property Manager for about 12 years, averaging 500 units managed, in spite of best efforts there has been occasion to encounter a less than desirable tenant.

If you start taking action, you WILL get results.Condition yourself to think that if you stop because you are afraid of something (it will happen, no matter what) that you will keep going in spite of it.I PROMISE you, future you will thank you for pushing through.I'm going to put a little meat on this sandwich, and then close for the day.Once you have your process, ever night before you go to bed, take ten minutes. 

If I make a profit of 15k every year for 5 years but the property appreciates only at 20% over this time period vs 33% for SFR, I would be at the losing end of the stick when selling the house in spite of a net gain of 75k.

It is acting in spite of it.”Mark Twain

In a few select coastal areas prices are outrageous, but that is in spite of more strict credit rules and a larger safety net. 

You are creating a pattern of success in spite of the typical hiccups that occur in fix and flips.

Obviously I'm a real estate investor/broker/developer and so I also tend to be optimistically conservative in my assessment of real estate markets and opportunities in spite of my memory of 2008 (which feels all too familiar at the moment.)

@Joey Vasquez Simply put, don't fail because of, succeed in spite of. 

From what I have read these shooters come up quite often from a dying tree or from one of the roots that were damaged.Here is just one suggestion I found about "controlling" these shooters.When I mentioned to a neighbor last fall that I seemed to have a hopeless problem trying to get rid of some thistles that kept coming up in my front lawn in spite of everything I had tried to get rid of them, she said her husband used Weed B Gone on them and other weeds in their lawn.

In spite of this, there are plenty of rehabbers in Massachusetts that do this every day.