Trust is the most important thing in business and if people don't feel like you are attentive to their issues and are moving fast to fix them they aren't interested in working with you.

Gain enough insight to know what they are capable of so you can use them to your utmost advantage, and in doing so you will also learn from them- that's what you pay them for as well.Make cheat sheets if you have to.

B) Even if she's right, kinda sorta, she's sensationalizing the degree, again for attention.

If you're going to be holding it yourself, I'd focus my attention on managing tenants or on finding a top PM.

BP seems like a great place to start a solid foundation and a great oppotunity to gain knowledge from experienced investors.

You'll need to gain their trust, some spiel about how great your deals are won't cut it, you'll need demonstrate competence and how you can protect their money.

I only pay attention to them if all my offers are similarly low and no one buys the property.

Meanwhile you can gain good information from pod casts and the files.

You would gain a lot of marketing skills to use for future projects that you will have in your investing career.

I can net about 150K if I sell today, after paying realtor and cap gain and whatnot.For two years I was dead set on selling it this spring and moved back to get the cap gain exclusion on one side of the duplex.