Go to every open house on the weekend that you can find and talk to the agent and ask if the seller is willing to sell using owner financing. 99.99999% of the time they will say "No" but it builds your confidence until you can get to the point of asking that of FSBOs on the phone.

I gained a little bit of social confidence, probably after about 8 months to a year (this was never a fast process, nor was it ever deliberate). 

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Let me start off with I am a self employed electrical Residential contractor.

Being in SoCal, I can confidently bank on eventual appreciation.

I self manage, but a property manager would be an easy solution to not having experience. 

I self manage, so I thought that could be the case.

I am self managing the property now we are currently getting 6.01% cap rate.

For example, on the places I self manage, if there's a toilet flapper that needs to be replaced, I can do it myself for $15 parts + my time.

I am a self-employed technology consultant/project manager, my wife is a realtor with Keller Williams North East.