It amazes me how many meaningful relationships my wife and I have built through this investing community, and it’s led to tremendous growth for my wife’s real estate business, and also growth in our portfolio and property management company with all the wise advice and lessons learned that have been shared with us.

Market is on fire right now. 

But if you can find a way, set aside some of your precious time for learning painfully slow lessons, and screwing up, and don't believe anyone who tells you they have a sure-fire way for you to bypass the learning curve of this business, or that your time is too valuable to waste on failure.

Lesson learned.  

Its just scary knowing what the market looked like just a few years ago to the insane market craze we're currently dealing with and I'm scared to think I don't make a move on something like this and have the market keep its fire for another few years and the same home is 130k for some unknown random reason.

And now those fire sale deals have disappeared and you weren't able to drop your full cash load.

This lesson has already been learned by others in your area, so go get that wisdom and don't make their mistakes.You need to start documenting your rental criteria as soon as possible.

Fire starter materials 

Lessons learned?

Disclose in MLS the cost of flood, fire, hurricane... insurance from three carriers up front.