Thanks for emphasizing some of those other benefits to my overall net worth as well as lifestyle considerations as well! 

First of all, major retailors charge thousands for furniture and electronics they have manufactured over seas for pennies and I did emphasize on the "over priced" crappy 10k necklace zales sold me for over 1.5k that probably amounted to 40$ in gold weight. 

I'm thinking SFR, but all the BP podcasts I've been listening tend to emphasize how as a real estate investor we want to scale as much as possible.

Something I read in negotiation stuff emphasized the benefits of giving the other person perceived power, and letting them answer with a "No" lets them feel they are more in control. 

The key points that I would like to emphasize is don't over do the beginning learning process.

On equity deals, you should be--I emphasize "should be" because I can't speak for all platforms--ongoing reporting that shows all of the cash in flows and out flows, including fees.  

As I said before too, I'd REALLY REALLY emphasize that you and if you have any partners, that you check with the city of MKE as far as the work you mention this place needs and try to nail them down as to what they're going to require as far as fixing whatever in the place because one example I can give you is one home I'm soon to put on the market where it came (as an REO) with a 4 fuse fuse box and the ancient knob and tube wiring inside and while these days you really can't get ins coverage on anything with fuses, so they've been updated to breakers, you do still have a lot of knob and tube wiring around here as we have a fair amount of housing stock that's very old. 

BTW, why is it so important to emphasize his middle name?

INS promptly misplaced (lost) every single one of these notices, as I would come to find out later (too late) I renewed my work visa with the same local INS office every year to be current, emphasizing my new address.

As a Realtor/Property Manager I can not emphasize enough the value in doing your due diligence when purchasing a property out of state.