Get to know potential partners and spend time making sure you work well together and have skills that complement one another's!

Also doing a rehab yourself allows you to learn the skills to do things yourself in your own home.

Anyone successful as the learned the art of the ol' pick yourself up and go again.

@Eli SoreyIn today's market my biggest pain point is finding and hiring skilled employees.

At it’s core, real estate is the art of measuring risk against opportunity.

What is your skill set that opens doors in case your job were to vanish or become obsolete?

You learn so much about the operator of a portfolio during the underwriting and due diligence process and we were fortunate to be dealing with people of integrity and skill on this one!

You can also use a glue down lvp that requires a bit more skill to install (my guy charges $1.50 sq/ft) but is a lot easier to replace when a tenant damages a piece.

There is something about spreadsheets causes all critical thinking skills some people posses to vanish and be replaced with a blind belief in whatever number or percent they heard someone other successful person use without any attempt to understand the logic that drives those assumptions.  

That's where this gets to be an art more than a science.I heavily document things with pictures and/or video before tenant occupancy.