REI today attracts a lot of people who really believe they can reduce all the business's problems and challenges to equations and algorithms.

No evictions, has a bank account with 3x rent today (this one requrement will save you tons of heart ache and problems), good references from current AND more importantly their prior landlords. 

I spent all day today with my haul of goodies .  

Had I thought that it was always a good time to buy and kept up my previous pace I probably would have been wiped out.That said, I don't think that today is 2005. 

Fortunately, we just heard back from a local bank today and they agreed to refi under our LLC's name. 

As I said a decade ago and feel today, office and retail will continue to suffer in the years to come, therefore mixed-use with residential apartments provides diversification. 

There are professional business owners that can do much better but they tend to own many locations where they can scale and put in structure to get more passive and away from day to day activities.

I am meeting with my property manager today to get my first rental on the market!

Very few investors today want to use cash reserve unless there is compelling reason to win over competitors. 

My day to day job is as a critical facility engineer for a data center, with my specialty being HVAC and commercial electrical.