BUT, I'm tired, tired of being simply a student, with my upbringing I am ready to make a change.This past year my Father was diagnosed with cancer and has since beat the ailment.

After he gutted the place, his wife was diagnosed with cancer.

I don't want a dentist to diagnose my heart problems and I wouldn't necessarily want a property flipper to tell me how to setup a buy and hold business based on cash flow.Good luck.

It is NOT just an 8% property management fee either, it is familiarity with the market, being able to locate deals, being able to manage renovations, not getting ripped off on repair costs,being able to verify that everything is running as it should be & being able to quickly diagnose/fix when it isn't, not suffering from high turn over from poor tenant screening & management, not spending a fortune on airfare to fix issues, and generally not being 100% reliant on others who may or may not have your best interests at heart to make the investment work.On the other hand, if you study things this way and compare multiple markets, you will see that places that have inexpensive property and high initial cash flow do NOT have high appreciation.

I don't know if I want to go back to school for two years for added responsibility (prescribing and diagnosing patients). 

The statement "paralysis of analysis" diagnosed my problem - wow that fast saved me a lot of time and effort!

At first, we thought the issue might be coming from the loose toilet and so a plumber came out to diagnose the situation.

I'm with the bunch here in that it would seem unrealistic to spend so much and it's hard to diagnose without pics or a better understanding.

About 25 years ago there was a 'cluster' of folks diagnosed with MS. 

It’s short of like going to your doctor, and you tell him/her that you’re sick and he/she prescribes you medication without asking you questions and properly diagnosing  your ailments.