I am ready to scale but know I need to hammer down solid financing and taxes but struggling with where to begin.

Is it as efficient, effective and accurate as using the right tool for the job, a hammer?

Only a fool picks up a hammer and bashes his thumb in with it when he could instead be making million, MILLIONS per hour using his real estate skills.Come on in, the water's fine!

But the best learning was being on the job talking to contractors and picking up the hammer and sweating.

I've heard the horror stories from landlords about how the tenant they were evicting poured cement down the toilet, played hammer darts in every room, ripped out the copper, or left piles of garbage for the landlord to clean up.This hasn't happened to me - my last tenant just left untidiness that took me about an hour to clean up.

You should see me eat crablegs. one leg in each hand grabbing it like you would a hammer, and I am chewing on the third holding it up with ma toes!

I get the 10% down, the cash flow, the principal paydown, the tax write offs, have no work to do and don't require a property manager.So, if you like swinging a hammer, like I do, build a shed in the back yard but make your money buying "off market" and selling "lease option".

One thing I know for sure is this- If they did not suspend evictions in my market, then some shmucks would have filed half-assed and sloppy ones that would have brought an even harder hammer down on us.Use this time to re-assess and re-evaluate your holdings, screening and purpose.

When the gas company discovered that they came with jack hammers and a back hoe excavated the paved public street and severed the gas line. 

@Natalie Kolodij I think you are sought of on the right path but may be thinking too much at this point, I don't disagree on having multiple options, but here is how I would lay it down: (also I am not a big savy investor like other BP members, please don't hammer me on what I have to say :-) ) 1.