You'll need to check it constantly and make a lot of phone calls.

I spent about 2 months looking at deals before Harvey and I felt like I was constantly finding deals that were pretty "thin".

This crowd here is going to in general be wired more towards the 'constant invest' mindset.It's mostly investors, business minded people, etc to generalize. 

Self managing includes dealing with tenants on a regular basis, taking phone calls at 10 pm on a Saturday night because the toilet is clogged, and constantly trying to get a hold of them to pay rent. 

I've been flying a plane for 20 years, progressing constantly, but without passengers in a specific route.NOW that I have the ability to fly with people in the plane, in this case, just Buyers.... not going to List a Property just yet.... researching what the passengers need and other aspects of flying a plane with Passengers in it, is another type of license.For the Brokerage Firm, I had to take 140 Hours of classroom study.

It’s big enough so that a unit is constantly turning over, someone has a dishwasher leak, etc.

Recently inspired by the book & Podcast "The ONE Thing" - A question that is constantly asked is - "What is the ONE thing I can do that will make everything else easier or unnecessary?"

You should do a little bit  better than 6% on a 30YF (unless maybe if that has PMI baked into it), but 85% LTV investment properties remain the highest interest rate conventional mortgages there are, holding constant things like credit etc.The investment property hit is literally doubled at 85% LTV, relative to the 75% LTV standard.It's possible that 19 of the 20 institutions you contacted concluded that it wasn't worth the reputation risk ("oh XYZ has horrible interest rates, they quoted me ABC" - without mentioning that it was for literally the worst interest rate pricing scenario that exists) associated with offering 85% LTV investment properties. 

In addition, this program helps to lay out the schedule, but as the PM you need to constantly drive the schedule and adapt.Sense of urgency is the most important trait, every day!.

I have several "farms" in several towns that I constantly analyze. they are not squares or rectangles but odd shaped areas where I have determined my likeliness of the best returns.