One day a lightning storm burned both buildings to the ground.

But for finding sellers is a pure waste of time and energy.

All it takes is being burned once or twice to realize that helping someone out can result in a bad business decision.

. / But yeah, you make a good point, on these "buyers" and "sellers" who totally flake and waste everybody's time and energy, they are eventually exposed and erased from any list of legitimate contacts.

If multiple people show up at the same time, and they have, it gives them the incentive to fill out the application right there.I have a scented candle burning before they arrive, toilet paper in the bathrooms (good call), and a small plant or floral arrangement on the kitchen counter.

When I started, I went to look at apartments in the Sunday newspaper looking for landlords that were burned, frazzled, and at the end of their rope.

Especially considering the time and energy you are putting forth in searching parks and looking for deals.

. -- shwoed that we could save 50% of $$$ on energy and got half our money back -- So long story short, we have 33k into it ARV.

The best thing that ever happened to me was running my first business into the ground, and crashing and burning on my first property deal. ;)

It really didn't get ugly, but it would have served us all well to talk about our goals before spending so much energy building a partnership that didn't work out.