Combining these strategies often gives investors the best balance of cost, simplicity, and security.

Agents may also have macro data on historical data, local median sale prices, absorption rate, etc to help with your analyses and projections.Networking/build a team: Attend local meetups, virtual meetups and stay active on forums like this.A lot of this will be done in front of a PC unfortunately but if you cut out the noise, you'll be able to maximize your time.Lastly, something that has helped me tremendously with respect to focus and improving efficiency is the pommodor technique. 

Consider all the things that could go wrong and see if the lease addresses them: unauthorized pets or tenants, early termination, security deposit, lease violations, late rent, eviction, lawn maintenance, parking, etc.5.

You would choose the tenant so you would have a decent amount of security on who is living there.

@Dylan Robinson I've got buddies that used their VA loan to secure big beautiful plexes in DC.

I continue to pad my social security contributions full-time with the hopes of maximizing my retirement benefits.

In order to secure the property, we had to offer 10K over asking with the hope it wouldn't appraise.

I can have separate bank accounts, debit cards, security deposit accounts etc. and now with new features like automatic recurring transfers things are even easier and time efficient 

I have a MTR near Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals, and I found it was a bit tougher than I expected to secure tenants.

Heard the owner was interested in selling so I proactively reached out and secured the sale How did you finance this deal?