I think everyone's situation is different, and when one crafts their buy box, they need to consider their current family and finances.For me, when I started, I wanted to buy 2-4 unit distressed properties in neighborhoods I wanted to live. 

How would you handle the situation if you ever encountered one?

I haven't joined MAREI yet, but I've been to one of their meetings and found it useful.

It's a more involved discussion that requires one on one communication and no, joining a "community" does not prepare you.

I had a flipper come to me asking about doing a new development.He would need $240,000 to purchase the land from a wholesaler and then he would have his GC partner get the construction loan but they cant get the loan if their is someone else that has a lien on the property so i would have to collateralize against one of their assets which they don't have.

Here's one recent example: https://www.currentfederaltaxd...Do you want to imitate such logs?

We keep telling ourselves "this is the last one" then decide to do it again.

And this one cracked me up: "We were sipping lukewarm coffee from chipped mugs, half convinced we’d made a mistake."

use STR reports it's more representative of major hotel markets and hotel inventory. find hte right brand. we just did a 150 page report on one development site.

Thanks for the advice, I have read some books but not that one.