Networking with real estate professionals, agents, and other investors can uncover valuable opportunities like off market, trades, and even owner financing deals.  

Look, ya might as well invested in Arizona future beach front while at it, YES that's how flawed that whole investment reads to me FROM START.   

But what I found ironic are:- Andy, who has been working full time in RE for 4 years, are finally going to make $50K passive annual income from rental (with a flawed net profit calculation that didn't income vacancy rate, maintenance fee); and he said after attending the $39,500 program, he paid total $80K--poor Andy didn't even make his initial investment back after four years and yet they are demonstrating him as a success case.- In fact, Andy is now a "trainer"--which seems to me, training is their stream of income, not real estate- Andy revealed that he found his deal leads through words of mouth; what's ironic is the instructor kept on selling the importance of the company's Elite Success Software and told us we can't make deal without itInstead of teaching something, they spent the whole third day (at least until 1 pm when I finally decided to leave) selling the program.

Every system you try will have flaws, or you may salivate over a feature that appears in other software.Some familiar names are mentioned frequently: Stessa, Apartments.com, RentRedi, TenantCloud, Innago, RentManager, Avail, Rentec Direct, Doorloop, etc.I recommend conducting thorough research on each app online to understand their offerings, pricing, etc.

The question of all-cash or use financing, which is "better, is a fundamentally flawed question. 

As I evaluate this, I figured I'd share my account with my bookkeeper, but then realized that would also give them access to my accounts.Don't get me wrong, I like Baselane so far, but this might be a fatal flaw for me.

There is very little technical knowledge needed, but there is a lot of common sense needed.I would google "rental property investing for beginners" and see what you uncover.  

As we got into what was supposed to be just a cosmetic rehab we uncovered several things that set me back by about 5 months and $40K.

Those who do understand it aren’t struggling.Here’s the common flaw: people think a circumstance equals motivation.Foreclosure = motivatedTax lien = motivatedAbsentee owner = motivatedThat’s just not true.Motivation is an emotional response to a circumstance, not the circumstance itself.Let me give you an example.

Of course I can think of Dawn Anastasi and Chris Clothier with a few more but they run a business uncovering the diamond properties looking through many duds.