You want to "hire" people in that area to help you whether it's an agent, an appraiser / BPO company, property preservation company etc.

I sold one when it went 35x after 5 years, only to see it is at 47x now (after 8 years).I started looking at real estate ~2 years ago as a capital  preservation strategy rather than capital growth strategy, and started pumping money into syndications.

We own a condo outright with renters, and we're under contract for another, but the seller (a bank) has pushed the closing back two months because of title issues, and I guess I'm just getting anxious and considering other scenarios, while trying to preserve the amount we've saved to put into the one under contract... 

Trying to preserve our monopoly to the detriment of consumers borders on unethical, IMO.That said, I'm a landlord for a living, I'm a Realtor because I love it.