And, the cycle begins...If I've talked to one person, I've talked to a thousand, who have told me they've spent thousands of dollars, and spent YEARS, buying and reading... with not a dime in profit to show for it.

If you are buying a property for tens and tens of thousands of dollars, spend an hour looking at other resources....school ratings, economics of the neighborhood, etc.  

I don't think you need to spend thousands and thousands of dollars on education, but you need to find a successful mentor/coach and learn from themThanks AdamGino

I've had a property manager end up costing me thousands and thousands of dollars in lost rent and property damage simply by failing to do their job and trying to take the easy route.

. , I rarely let buyers (borrowers) leave a closing table with more than a few thousand dollars (maybe $10K) of my funds and will only do that if they are buying considerably under market value, are quite experienced, and/or we have done multiple successful transactions in the past.

So I am just going to sell this one and really plan my next couple buys around the thought of buying and holding for 5-10 years and then flip and sell them. this way i will not have to worry about tenants ruining high end finishes.

Those that have thousands of post...they will keep it VERY real.

I told him that he probably wouldn't be able to swing it for 310k because my friends payed tens of thousands more than what they could have gotten for the house.

When I studied engineering for 4 years and thousands of hours of my time, I was a student not an investor, even though I was investing lots of my time.

There's still a room in the basement of that place filled with stuff that was never properly stowed, thousands of wasted dollars slowly corroding away.