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

Classifieds posts are basically unlimited for all users. 

Everything is basically a second hand opinion from someone else. 

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

Get back to the basic, get more education, and for goodness sake operate business properly.The gurus teaching all the weird ways of doing real estate don't make money doing what they teach, they make all their money selling you a THEORY.

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.  

Or they might keep scaling up since they have the basic processes in place and it gets easier and easier to do once you’re familiar with it.

Just make sure you understand the basics around that and your accountant is familiar with it.

Either way it's something that with basic people skills could be avoided. 

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