Why are you focused on scaling when the only way you can scale is to take a second loan on your primary and burn all of your equity that you may need for something else (even if you are a high earner)?

If it's not configured right or your numbers aren't whitelisted, you’ll show up as “Spam Likely,” which kills your contact rate — even if your dialer burns through 1200 numbers every few hours.In short: cold calling still gets results, but you’ve got to be strategic with list quality, skip tracing, conversation skills, and tech setup if you want to really make it work.As for SMS outreach — it definitely has potential, but there are some serious compliance issues to be aware of.

I guess it makes sense after they burned their bridges in real estate.

Some owners burn out trying to do it all — or end up with mediocre guest experiences due to stretched bandwidth.In some markets, being hands-on makes total sense.

I've been burned by this before. 

They burned holes in the carpet. 

A burned out street on Zillow is still a burned out street today. 3) Dont believe it when they say your property taxes will be low for 3 years - its a luck of the draw when the city wants to reassess your home and it could be THIS YEAR and cause that $400 to skyrocket to $2,000 or maybe - if you are super unlucky like me - $5000  4) Related to #3 - BUY PRE-RENOVATION not after, so the sales price does not trigger a re-assessment and cause a 522% increase overnight in property taxes from $800 to $5000 within the first year. 5) watch out for SUPER HIGH UTILITIES AND other city FEES!

Once you’ve closed your first wholesale deal, the real challenge begins:How do you make that process repeatable without burning out your VA—or yourself?

First, you can continue as is and at best continue to have that feeling of being “trapped”, at worst “burn out”.  

Watch it catch on fire and burn the house down?