I would not just throw my money at a place as an “investment” when you will probably have a negative cash flow.

That may throw some cold water on your plans.

The audience is stock investors who are equally passionate and successful in stocks as the BP community is in REI.

You are building a small business, not throwing money into index funds, and to be successful you will have to move out of your comfort zone & do things that are not fun.

People throw bones and stuff down there and jamb them up all the time.

I'm not going to learn a ton more by reading I either need to throw myself to the wolves or get taken under someones wing and the I'm not one to burden someone by my inability.

However, I've also found that if we make the process overly cumbersome or put too much required work on the lender, they'll just back away and become less interested because it seems to scary or unsafe or more work than they wanted from a passive investment...when in reality we could have the debate that it's safer than throwing money into the black box that is your mutual fund...but since that's socially acceptable people just do it. 

I dealt with this garbage when I repositioned my properties and I can tell you that you will be on parking cop/tenant dispute resolution duty going forward.The only way to deal with irrational children who are throwing a tantrum is to reward them with a picnic table and $50 grill.

You can literally just throw the money away and it could be a totally useless degree.

I have seen wayyyyyyyyyyy too many California investors throw their money over here without flying over to taking a look at the area for themselves and they are usually in a bad situation because they didn't do so.