@Matteo Scali I’d improve the discipline of saying no. It’s easy to spend too much time trying to make a marginal deal work because of optimism, effort already invested, or fear of missing out.

A clearer buy box, conservative assumptions, and predetermined walk-away thresholds would make decisions faster and protect capital. The goal would be fewer deals that merely look exciting and more that still work when rent is lower, costs are higher, or the timeline runs longer than planned.

From where I sit as both an investor and a Realtor, the headache I see most isn't finding deals — it's the team breaking down after the deal is found. Contractors who ghost, property managers who don't answer, lenders who move slow. If I could fix one thing about how most investors operate, it would be building the vetted local team before the opportunity, not scrambling after it. Systems beat hustle every time: a contractor, a PM, a lender, and an investor-friendly agent who all pick up the phone. The investors I see scale smoothly aren't working harder — they're just never waiting on people. What's the one thing you'd fix about your process?