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Completely agree for those who have chosen the market as their investment vehicle of choice. 

With REI, the Caprate ~= the ye index return for your chosen investment.The numbers (NOI, PP) indicate that your PP is buying an NOI. 

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Monday and Tuesday, he moved on to trying to memorize more and more of the algorithms.He is.He has not memorized them yet completely.He still has to use a written guide.However, he is solving the puzzle 100% of the time.This game of real estate is very similar to the Rubik’s Cube situation.Real estate is a complete puzzle and mystery when you are starting out.It’s difficult.You might as well be learning a language of a tribe hidden from human view for thousands of years.There’s no context.Yet, SOME OF YOU persist (a very small minority).If you persist, you start to figure some things out on your own.Then, you start to do more and more research, which leads to learning.It leads you to sites like BiggerPockets.It leads you to books, some of which provide step-by-step action plans.The point is, nothing in real estate is an unknown (from a learning standpoint).We’re not reinventing the wheel through all of this.100% of every process that we go through and have to learn, we can commit to a process in writing.As an example of this, if you choose to be a buy-and-hold investor, one of your algorithms will be to locate a house suitable for purchase.Then, once you have the algorithm, you can start to fill in the steps.It’s not rocket science.Your steps may include describing exactly what you’re looking for first.“3 BR/1 BA (at least) in Pulliam County that will cash flow at least $200 / month.”Awesome.Now you can exclude EVERYTHING ELSE.Then, you can outline a process for yourself.

They would inspect the area to be vacuumed and then turn it on while the human cleaners were working on the kitchen or bathroom.  

Try to pick someone humane.

So what you need is to try and find off market properties or those only lightly marketed so there are less eyeballs on them.If you find the easily found properties then of course the sellers are going to want to get the most they can it's human nature.

Time and I also lost alot of respect towards humans.