Some of these are actual physical items that require going to the property.Owning remotely with a great property manager is fine and rewarding!

That is not to say there are tremendous rewards for purchasing land if you definitely know what you are doing.

You need to determine what the cost of doing business is vs the reward and set your pricing accordingly.

Ultimately, these are investments, and your risk/reward should be the driving factor.Buying a 100+ unit will get you the efficiencies of being able to afford a couple full time people, right off the bat.  

While there might be startup costs for licensing and marketing, the potential to earn commissions from property sales can be rewarding.

A good contractor knows and respects this and knows that piss poor planning makes for poor performance just as well as the opposite makes for a long-standing and rewarding relationship.

I will ask him to run CMA, cash flow analysis and hint he can be rewarded more real estate role.

Some investments are higher risk, and higher potential rewards.

any time you borrow against your personal house, you are risking. it's like getting a HELOC and going on vacation. just that this "vacation" has a potential of paying you back if you do it right.no risk = no reward

When you seek to separate risk from reward, the idea is to get all of the reward and none of the risk, not the other way around, which is what you are asking from the broker.