I've been relentlessly researching all things real estate over the past couple years - reading countless books, watching hundreds of hours of YouTube videos, listening to thousands of hours of podcasts, etc.

Taking action before you know anything is going to real estate investing meetups, asking smart questions in the forums, building relationships, reading books, and listening to podcasts.

lesson learned is always listen to your guts and dont apoy to much attention to the oether even if they are experts in the area.

More than half of the advice on here is driven by an agenda so you have to hear it but not necessarily listen to it. 

Listen up, everyone on this thread, the PM is NOT responsible for eviction costs just like they are not responsible for maintenance costs or any other costs.

Hello everyone,  long time reader and podcast listener, first time poster...  

Blah blah blah.I love the Podcasts (I listen everyday sometimes multiple podcasts everyday and covered a bunch during a recent rehab) but there are a lot of those stories and I'm wondering if this opportunities are simply not in the cards for those of us building a portfolio today.

But they insist that the numbers are correct, even offer to use my own dialer where I can listen into calls besides seeing the call logs.  

After about one month of listening to the families issues, I offered make the payments to bring their mortgage current.

Don't listen to a brokerage pitch, they are all generally the same - our marketing is excellent, we are the leader in the area, look at our website and partnerships - they all have that.Cloud brokerages, in general, are better for independent self-starters, but the con is you will be on Facebook Workplace trying to network and won't have an office to go to.