Be patient first and foremost, I have been talking to my wife for 7 months now and she is still not "excited" about REI but she is becoming more and more open and willing to talk about the subject.

Be patient and stick to your acquisition model.

If you are patient, it is a great city for investment.Best of luck to you.

Be patient and make good decisions.

Be patient and you will make a tidy bundle when you finally do sell.4)You aren’t going to be able to flip a house in a down real estate market, so why bother.

When the note is paid in full, the note holder files (records) a release (or cancelation or satisfaction, depending on your county) in public record and effectively 'just walks away' as you state.

Just be patient and make sure you always do the numbers and make sure you use real numbers.  

But you can get a deal if you're patient enough and can stomach their high pressure approach.

-Give us the emotional satisfaction of having one deal under our belts (while at the same time reassuring our wives that this will be a sustainable business)-Hopefully make a profit (however small it may be), which will give us additional equity to either put back into a second project or our first rental propertyWe feel there is significant value in the first three benefits, so much so that we view the fourth benefit almost as an afterthought (anything greater than zero post-tax will do just fine by us).So, there is the background.

Patient people get the leftovers from those that hustle.