It's making sure that I am being stubborn for the right reasons and not looking at things through rose colored glasses. 50% of the properties I own are in my daughters name (LLC) they'll be for her eventually.

In my experience, a woman respects a man who is driven, stubborn, and will go after his goals no matter what.

Instead, with bull-headed stubbornness, I decided to give real estate one more push.

Some have chosen to divert from the point he was attempting to make in order to respond with self-righteous statements of grandeur and non-judgement of others.FYI- proclaiming yourself above the use of a word instead of just responding to the question isn't just self-righteous, its also very telling.There is a difference between people being firm in their beliefs and self-righteous, there is nothing wrong with being firm and confident...but if you really are then you don't need the "Shut up and listen to me" attitude that turns if from one to the other.I have found VERY FEW who are arrogant and stubborn are also successful and if they are telling you flat out thats how they are with their attitude on display, you should thank them for not wasting your time.

So to me, the question is, why is NYC stubbornly holding on to the high commissions?

That has been my experience as long as you have a 1.25% or higher DSCR.I would defiantly use the bigger pockets rental property calculator and show the results to the bank, sometimes they can be stubborn on values as well but this is something you can come with accurate comps from an agent and your own personal financial pro forma of the property.Also, don't take the banks appraiser at face value, you may have to defend your position against one and it helps having the numbers in hand...Good Luck!

but I knew that between the robotics and other stuff I could not figure out what you mean.. your a driven dude.. and I was one of the first to give you a little bit of tough love.. but once you cracked the code your a winner.. but then again you would win at any sales and marketing you just happened to chose real estate.I was always a rebel, stubborn, not much faith in the knowledge of others.

I was stubborn.

I may be to stubborn and narrowminded and missing opportunities now, but flipping homes doesn't meet my goals for example.   

THAT is my point.As long as you are good at lead generation you ABSOLUTELY CAN do this.It is sustainable doable as long as you do it right.Now, the reason why so many of you fail, is because you are stubborn, deviant, haters, lazy!