Im not spending a ton of money buying new assets maybe 15k to 20k a year invested of my cash.

This way your not spending your days doing secretarial work when you want to be adding value or getting deals.

It's much easier just to re-lease the place.To prevent this, I would spend more time screening your tenants.

How much can you commit to spending, persistently and consistently for a bare minimum of 6 months with no return?

I think to get an interior BPO spending 100 to 200 or so with pics and even a video maybe would be worth it before flying out.I hope this investment does not represent most of the cash you had to purchase a property.

just to be clear about my opinion, I am talking about long term investing, not day trading. i think day trading is a losing game, except for the 1% who "know more than the market." if you want to discuss which is a better investment, i think it is clear that real estate is (if it is your thing). however, real estate requires your time which my preffered method of stock market investing takes very little time. dollar cost averaging is truely passive investing. if you want to talk truely passive real estate investing where you spend an hour a month looking over statements and you are not hands on in any way, i dont think you will do much better if any than the stock market......over the long term. what the recent stock market crash has reminded people is that it is a volatile market and some people are not comfortable with that. i think real estate is not as volatile.to the question of whether or not people will jump from stocks to real estate. because of how the stock market has acted lateley, i think yes. big hedge funds have proven that. i am just saying...give it 10 years and possibly a few good runs by the stock market and people will be "following the herd."

Marketing should be your baby, but if you have a good amount of cash ready to spend, still marketing should be your baby and track your marketing so you are not wasting and throwing it away.

Most mentors spend the time and energy because they have a non-financial vested interest in the success of the person they're mentoring.

I (used to) spend a lot of time just trying to find buildings to buy that fit a criteria.

This is a buyers market if you've got cash to spend.