Luckily my wife has been saving money for about 25 years so I am not under a bunch of stress because of my medical recovery and my wife's boss has been very kind about me.  

I was in a similar situation and hated my 9-to-5 job, but once I focused on acquiring sufficient rental property to allow me to leave my job,  The stress of the job actually eased up a bit -  having that long-term goal made it easier to get up and go to work every day because I knew that I wasn't stuck there forever – as it turned out it only took me a few years to acquire enough rental property to pay my bills -  then, leaving a job I hated it was a very very easy decision ...Good luck to you

1) Being an investor themselves2) Good correspondence-picking up the phone, returning missed calls, responding to texts/emails (can't stress this enough)3) Hustling!

My recommendation would be to spend some time deciding exactly what you want to gain from real estate and then put that down on paper.I cannot stress enough the importance of writing your goals.  

National Banks cause too much stress for sellers (and buyers), they miss closing dates, and sometimes ruin everyone's working relationship in the transaction.  

(Oy vey!) 

The other thing you will always want to be aware of and you can not put a price on is the mental stress factor of dealing with something without any eyes to have on the challenge at hand,,,,,,Just food for thought

Consequently it's easier to run stress-tests to ensure I don't have cash-flow negative months (save potentially for the month I pay annual property taxes...).

im so stressed out right now, i have a tri-plex , basement,main, top, my main is all gutted out, and my plan was to redo everything, and rewire will cost me 5500.00 just for the main floor, but im having second thoughts, because half of my basement flooded from a bursted pipe(it was covered by insurance) but on one door it floods a bit everytime its rains hard, is this worth keeping or should i just put sheet rock up and sale it?

Definitely look at comps now, and get a real idea of how much you can rent it out for.I have lived in both, and the biggest stress is your HOA, they set the rules, and you pretty much how no control of costs.. one time I got a bill for $1700 to replace the front porch rails-- would have cost me $200 and I could have done it myself, but because it was a HOA, they had to do it.. stuff like that makes me never want to get a townhouse.