@Brian Kosack Your rambling thoughts remind me of mine when I was looking for my first property.

This also reminds me of hard money lenders where it is also more of a "hands off" way of investing and having the deals come to you.Base on your own experience can some of you shed some light on how you prefer to find or receive your deals? 

He pretty much is on the verge of just abandoning the home within 2 weeks but I reminded him not to damage his credit any further.

I was just reminded of this when I easily applied for a CO for an Investor buddy of mines in Roselle.

For the last 3 years I have been using a hodgepodge of systems to manage emailing, customer contacts and notes and action reminders.

Fire him,pure and simple.Any agent to busy to deal with me is too busy to be taking my money and they get canned.Too many other hungry,less busy agents who need your money desperately and will give you the attention and level of service you deserve.It's business,keep it professional.Maybe you are doing him a favor and reminding him never take a paying client for granted.

I just needed to remind the BP community that there are those who are impatient that way, but don't express it quite the way I did.

is an excellent distinction.It reminds me of a turnkey company (not in here) that would discourage a person from paying all cash and use leverage to buy more assets.

It seems like there was always one thing after the other and I knew the risk when I started or else I would not have done it but I never thought it would just keep amassing.Today actually was a good a reminder as to why I am doing this besides the money.  

I start communicating with the tenant and remind them of potential late fees.