Once you get a piece of property under contract, then you're outsourcing all of the entitlement work to experts and basically managing that part.  

They cover many basic things that won't be covered in any detail in podcasts on investing.

Everything is basically a second hand opinion from someone else. 

I basically gave them short notice that they were fired.  

They told me that they would not fix anything unless I "removed the post" and basically forced me to post a retraction on here. 

The massive tech investment from companies like Intel, Amazon, and Google is basically turning it into the Silicon Heartland.

Basically, you are convincing your inner doubter that you can do it. 

Yes we were successful winning bidding wars 3 months ago using the family postcard technique;) Basically, we added a cute picture of our family along with our offers (which were based on conventional financing) and our “humanity” made us win over the cash offers.

Now that you have managed a property and know the basics,  hire someone else to do it. 

My partner and I have a document we work through to analyze deals.A structured Excel template for real estate deals which includes: basic property info like address, type, size, purchase price, and closing costs.