I recommend setting up keyword alerts for each area as they are discussed in the forums daily with advertisements posted in the BiggerPockets marketplace hourly.One thing to note when looking at the individual markets, you can make or loose money in any market.

My tenants drug the process out much longer than it needed to be by calling the county and harassing the restoration crew almost daily. 

I recommend setting up keyword alerts for each area as they are discussed in the forums daily with advertisements posted in the BiggerPockets marketplace hourly.One thing to note when looking at the individual markets, you can make or loose money in any market.

Develop a budget as well as daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly goals and plan out how to get there (budget will be developed by tomorrow, the 14th, goals list also by EOD on the 14th.)Step 1 is done with this post, though it terrifies me to post on a national forum (even as I type this out my mind is screaming at me that people will make fun or think that I am weird or a flake), it is my first step and I am now invested and dedicated.

I'm connecting with people daily and looking forward to my first REI meetup in a couple of weeks.

Other than that, keep making calls daily (2-3 hours minimum).

We have an amazing partnership with our mortgage broker, we send them customers daily (in response to our marketing) looking to stop renting and buy one of our properties.

I work in several different parts of Knoxville daily usually and from what i can tell about the downtown area is nothing stays vacant long.

Now they tend to beat up the developers on new builds and it's a volume game to make any money.

Tie you identity to daily growth and disconnect it from external validation; otherwise, you happiness will be fragile and not in your control.