And nail down a definite amount of rent from the programs themselves before agreeing to rent to their tenants cause they will lowball the last second. 

@Eder Danilo Mazariegos@Drew C Grossman nailed almost everything I was going to reply, glad I read his first so not to sound like I was piling on.

It really nails the importance of building a great team!

Nothing wrong with a good job and salary, but it just took time away from what really excited me :) This is far too true and hits all of the nails right on the head.

@Kaybreh Mathis@Tesho Akindele Hit the nail on the head.

Make sure you have your criteria nailed down and know what value you can purchase.

@Mike Mankowski I think @Claire Trammell nailed it!

You hit the nail on the head with the difference between "appraised value" and "perceived value".

I generally work on commercial finance, so we tend to approach these decisions by comparing net present values (if you've nailed down your opportunity cost of capital) and internal rates of return on an apples-to-apples basis.

Im having trouble with my close rate and nailing down a system to process my carrot leads.