( I just moved to SC from living in Dallas for 20+ years ) I definitely know a lot of fire fighters that run whole other businesses on their off days - so I think you can do it especially if your interested in making it happen - its going to be pretty intense though if you want to build up your real estate business - you just need to really leverage your relationships you have already built in your community - which I would think would be easy as a firefighter.

For example maybe give 90% of your bookings to one cleaner, and 10% of your bookings to another so that you establish a relationship with a 2nd cleaner in case there are any unforseen issues with your main cleaner. 

Personally, it keeps me grounded and focused in investing and building relationships because those that cant keep up with the cost of living will need to reconsider. 

They wanted to build a relationship.

I am looking forward to learning, and hopefully forging relationships with like minded people. 

Now sometimes you can hold them up for a few grand for your troubles but then your not going to have a good relationship going forward with that trustee and there are only a handful of trustee's so if your actually in the bizz like I was  IE one of the top 5 buyers in the Portland Metro area this is not a good position to take from that stand point.What George is alluding to and this is CA law is that the lender when they are withing cant recall if its 3 or 5 days of the sale they do not have to accept reinstatement but you always have the right to pay in full..

I had the finances, he had the relationships and experience.

As an investor, I have plenty of properties and options and I want to nurture the relationship more than add a door.

Lessons learned - have a back up and make business relationships.

Build a relationship with someone who has been doing it for awhile.