It's tough to trust when your facing a stressful situation of a pending foreclosure etc and the overwhelming mailings and contact can make many want to shutter the doors and not respond to help initially.If you continue to door knock, stagger your trips between a couple of weeks and try evenings and weekends etc. 

CRE is sometimes more tough than a start up company (as at least with start ups, you can go SBA financing).  

It's tough renovating and living in it at the same time.

I understand but on top of that she said the market is hot and that flippers are having a tough time right now because sellers aren't budging on their price.

It's tough renovating and living in it at the same time.

That finding leads is obviously a tough thing to do and requires a ton of marketing time and effort.  

My firm has a number of property management clients who write their unique properties and firms liability and workers comp with us while writing some of their more standard properties with other agents. 

Tough spot @Zana Blue .  

Tough to finance and insure.  

NJ is probably at least $200K all-in in better areas from what I have seen and even that can be tough to find.Brooklyn is a non-starter without cash or partners who have it as entry prices are high and even the low-income areas have been discovered.