If you spend your life trying to operate a company at 500ft, when you should be at 30,000ft, you will always get bogged down in the operations and not the growth of the business.

I got my license for the benefit of my business, so I am looking for broker that is very investor friendly, where me spending most of my time investing and building my business doesn't interfere with the brokerage wanting me to focus on sales.  

Go ahead spend the money with new Windows.

I really enjoy the podcast, it makes the time I spend commuting so much more valuable. 

I've spoken to my CPA and -- cutting to the chase and factoring in passive losses, etc -- if I were to 1031 it into different investments, I'd need to spend about $100K of equity against about $300K of debit (for a total of $400K) in order to qualify for a "like" property and avoid capital gains.What I'm looking for are thoughts on the best strategies moving forward. 

I'm researching for clients, who are real estate investors too busy to spend much time here at BP.  

I'm going to be spending a lot of time on the introductory forums, I believe.

Before I ask for a recommendation I would like to say that I have certain limitations on the amount of capital that I can spend on closing costs, I do not have an unlimited budget and I would really like to keep it reasonable.Now, does anyone know of a good attorney that can help me review the PSA at a reasonable cost here in Texas?

However, the biggest struggle we faced wasn't real estate related, it was pride.Almost all of our friends were leasing new build apartments in the coolest areas of the city, driving new cars, and spending their money at the new cool pubs and eateries while my brother and I lived at home and still drive cars with 200,000+ miles on them.

Good luck in your investing and plan on spending at least an hour a day on BP if you are serious about building your business!