Especially as you accumulate properties , which makes the mortgage application more complex and time consuming for the loan officer due to the way rental properties, the corresponding mortgages and expenses have to be accounted for.3) Contractor: an investor will pay through the nose if they hire a general contractor or handyman to handle everything.

Picking a lender/agent/property manager can be like finding a needle in a haystack.

You can have all the education and resources, but you won't move the needle if you don't take action.

Please don't look down your nose at these--they are NOT trailers or double wides. 

You are looking for a needle in a haystack. 

(I personally hate loans but am planning to cash out refi some of my holdings if the market continues to nose dive and we have a chance of seeing crazy recession level deals again!)

Too many guys with ambition spend their time in high school and college with male friends or their noses in books.

Nothing would move the needle unless the wealth gap in all of America closes.

In 2009 when I immersed myself in the world of foreclosed real estate, it wasn't a golden age of excitement for me; it was a nose-to-the-grindstone time when the automotive industry laid off young project managers and the market wasn't hiring.

What I've found with situations where you feel like you want to get out, and that EVERYTHING sucks, is that the "stress needle" is just pushed a BIT too far over into the red zone.