It is hard for people to break their employee/self employed mindset and to think like a business owner/ investor.Now that we have our first tenants and everything is going smoothly one of our biggest detractors (my father inlaw) now wants to help us look for our next property and even is trying to convince his gf to do what we did.Be brave, be prepared and follow through and those voices will change their tunes.

With this type of strategy i believe you have to show that you want to help the home owner out somehow for them to bite the bait.

Employ experts where should and DIY where appropriate.

I keep waiting for prices to slow too, but there is such an imbalance between the employment situation, which is the best in the country by far, and the housing situation, which is quite limited in supply, that I actually foresee continued gains in real estate prices until tech finally crashes.  

I require good credit, employment, and deposits.

.% of vacant homes% of boarded up homes (not always easy to get this one).Employment rate for the area.Probably a few others.

I was also employed at the time.I wish I had the resources available here when I started.

We've both had employment with the same company for over 2  years, it's just between getting pregnant and having down time post injuries we've been living off of our savings and staying with family until the work is full time again. 

This would include a home office that an employee maintains for the sake of convenience for the employer. 

My clients who are traveling nurses use AAA capital in Florida but they can only lend at a time where the nurses have an employment contract.