Spend 3 hours per day (or night) learning a specific investing topic that will be relevant to your investment goal and strategy.5.   

Bad customer service basically.

Mom/Pop in C and D markets can survive without them since in a town of 1,000 to 50,000 the customers can find you. 

I had names of some family, friends, people who have been customers of my construction company where we do a lot of work on higher end homes and vacation homes, people I was in civic clubs with and the like.

@Feras Majeed:I don't know what state you are in but each state based on the entity type will often state in the relevant statutes how dissolutions are handled by default if not explicitly addressed in the operating documents.

I definitely have some relevant experience from growing and running my company, in managing people, finances, negotiation, and marketing.I had been looking at stuff in Seattle and where my parents live in Montana, but now all of a sudden my grandpa is selling what was my great grandpa's house in Massachusetts.

If you put your own short term needs ahead of your customers or clients long term needs that is not the way to build a solid and lasting strong foundation business for many decades to come.You want your customers and clients to win each time with their investments.

He works in customer service, he is not a professional painter.

Keep in mind, financing and location will be important and relevant when considering 2-4 units.

Before I was in RE investing I worked for The Walt Disney Company, and if I learned one thing, it's that customer service trumps all.