App. 1981)), your landlord must make reasonable efforts to re-rent your unit—no matter what your reason for leaving—rather than charge you for the total remaining rent due under the lease.

In my opinion,  funding is worth  50% and effort is worth 50%. 

Turning a hobby (owning in your own name) into a business always results in a great deal of duplicated and easily avoided effort and expense."... but, setting up entities costs $$$ ..." ... and losing properties in foreclosure doesn't?

Normally the investor will have to make this attractive to the PMI Company by placing a large deposit towards the purchase of the property.If the lender sees that the borrower has equity and is making serious efforts to market, the property the lender will generally delay foreclosure for a reasonable time to allow the property to sell.The lender will probably require the borrower to make full or partial payments during the marketing period to keep the overdue balance from growing.You as an investor can front all the cost as part of your purchase agreement.

And like you said, it is up to YOU and no matter how hard you work or try - it must be done in the right way and then success will be achieved - mentality is where it's at and not necessarily the effort as the effort needs to be channeled in the right direction.

There is no reason for most people to work with you because they aren't very motivated to sell.Focus your efforts on finding motivated sellers.

Shows you have put in the effort to analyze the property.

Put in the effort, build relationships, prove your value, and improve your odds of finding someone to help launch you on your path.

Did you run an analysis, deal rate, scored the effort it takes and ran it against the cost, plotted a graph, and in the same graph plotted the same analyses for DMM, cold calling, driving for dollars, SEO, Facebook marketing and PPC, and then when you scientifically analyzed it concluded that bandit signs was the best way?

B: "You should get something for finding this deal this is how it works, i sent it to my partners, and if we move on it you will get something for the efforts." and of course this is all paraphrased.