I go through a healthy balance of mindset books and realestate focused books/podcasts and it helps keep me grounded and driven.

If they ask more I’d say real estate focused

I'm a new investor with cash to invest - and I'm not limited to any area, but would prefer to focus on one.

I keep telling myself I won’t buy anymore deals and focus on building up a cash reserve for a rainy day but every time a great deal comes by I am drawn towards it and end up buying it.

Otherwise you may have to go to a hard money lender - they focus on the deal, not your credit.

I have been living in Austin for over 3 years now (obviously love it) and I've been in commercial real estate working as a tenant-rep broker focused on retail properties for the past year.

Latitude Realty is a great boutique brokerage that focuses on that niche, and Encompass Realty is one to check out especially if you are interested in buying properties at auction.

Once i built enough savings from wholesaling and my W-2 job I focused on finding the property matching my exact criteria.

The niches I want to focus on are single and multi-family homes.

Visiting a lot of properties also helped me get "desensitized" to the beauty of some of the properties I have seen so that I could focus mainly on the numbers and the property features.Analyze some potential rental properties even though you do not intent to purchase them.