It's a tremendous opportunity I hope I don't miss out on.

I understand real estate takes a tremendous amount of grit, but what does the average day look like for you if you are one of the investors putting in 100 hours a week? 

IMO when equity sits in a property, you're losing money because that could be another property, or two, or three....That being said, if owning more properties isn't what you want, leave the equity and enjoy that tremendous cash flow!

I understand real estate takes a tremendous amount of grit, but what does the average day look like for you if you are one of the investors putting in 100 hours a week?

Deal analysis will help you here tremendously.

Any feedback would be a tremendous help! 

It does, however, mean that a lot were when refi's and sales were at such a high volume that the lenders were not even looking at the appraisal for the most part.Getting back to the role of the lender -- all lenders are subjecting appraisals to close scrutiny, first applying certain measurements to the basic facts, and then sending it to appraisal review when it does not meet the standards of these new guidelines (and they do not meet them A LOT right now.)It doesn't matter what the realtor feels it is worth or sometimes even what the buyer is willing to pay, unless they have deep pockets to put down a larger down payment to make up the difference they cannot finance -- the lender will have tremendous influence over the value simply because they control the purse strings.

I don't see where this buyer has any skin in the game, while your exposure is tremendous!

I try to write a blog post every day...which i find very difficult to do.However, it is simple when I start the week brain-storming ideas to write about (which is the hardest part).I have found that ezines works tremendously, well when I work ezines.

So RE is so powerful because you get tremendous tax reduction benefits (depreciation, interest expenses, all operating expenses, and depreciate your capital improvements) all the while you've leveraged your investments, your tenants are paying your mortgage down for you, inflation is eating away at your mortgage, and you raise rents over time.