I have been investing in the stock market for about 3 and a half years now and I have had success as well as some failures.

My wife and I continue to plug away adding properties (up to 7 rental homes now), but I'm interested to meet others in the area to see what people have been doing for investment properties and what has been successful, along with sharing our successes/failures. 

I know what worked for me and now I can talk to sellers of a 5 Million dollar building no problem. it took me time to get there, not extra pressure and failure loops because I was not the ultimate sales person day 1. it took layering of confidence to get there- use introversion as an advantage. when you connect with someone you will come across as very authentic (which we are) and you will make a real relationship. what we introverts have to bridge is the numbers game, which is important. you must talk to more people to get better at it and then the magic happensgood luck

Slightly sloped floors are ok, but major slopes could be a sign of failure. 

You have to get the Marshall to serve basically all paper work and its $50 a hit every time.Today is the last day of execution for one of our tenants and ironically the electric utility came and shutdown his power for failure to pay that as well.

If these properties are draining your wallet, driving you mad, and not getting any better, no matter what you do, I think you're in a situation where you should consider dumping them.Any investor worth his/her salt, has probably experienced some failures.

Considering our immense  track record in the Cleveland, Ohio area and being the largest volume renovation loan contractor in our region, we deal with many clients who have experienced failures and required us to come in and complete, because the contractor was not capable of managing the administrative and financial burden these projects require.  

Failure to submit documents timely usually results in HUD's request for the deposit.

LOL, don't worry, I've had my share of failures!

Takes a lot more capital to flip.Different skill sets entirely.Similar failure rates.Id imagine the average full time flipper makes more than the average full time agent.