@James WiseJames, there is a concept called "empirical costs" which is the cost of doing a particular business or selling a particular product which could have an empirical adverse effect on others.The most common is smoking. 2nd hand smoke can have a devastating effect on the person NOT doing the smoking.

It's powerful to hear stories of overcoming and achieving your goals.

I've heard it's great for laying out a road map of overcoming long distance REI challenges, while also providing steps on jumping into real estate investing in general.

Because I know that, if I can overcome the difficulties (and most people either can't or won't), then I will be rewarded.

I do not see how this can be overcome now.

I appreciate the tips from your own experiences - it's just the thing that I need to see to overcome my doubts.

The amount of time it takes someone to learn how to properly do SEO on their own, therefore "no cost", and then to actually do the SEO and then continue to monitor and improve SEO doesn't seem to return enough added value to overcome just paying someone to do that for them.

But we are all working in a system and two of the hardest things to overcome in that system if you want success are no hs diploma and having bad credit.

Finding good management would also present another challenge...one that I'm sure could be overcome but one I'd think would be wise to invest serious time performing due diligence.

It is an extremely high bar for the city to overcome in my opinion and based on the most recent case in Ohio