Know your streets and neighborhoods and get a reliable contractor as a bad one can ruin even the best of deals.

Gosh and it's so much more harder to say no to a lady tenant.The no has to come very sensitively.Another reason I have is fear of ruining relationship with the tenant at the early stages.

Cashflow is definitely one of my top priorities right now at least until I'm more established and confident to avoid any slight mistakes I might make or obstacles I'd run into that could ruin a first deal.

It will be the difference between a smooth investment and an anxiety nightmare that ends in your financial ruin lol bit dramatic, but really... get good people to help you out in that market.

I assure you, if you allow your cash reserves to dwindle, that's when a sustained cold snap in January ruins two furnaces the same week.Tell Friends and Family to Screw OffThis is the unspoken reality of the 10,000 hour rule and Engelo's Don't be a Lazy A-hole.

I was under a crazy amount of stress trying to get everything done well and quickly and he ruined it.

I know my cousins in the mid west always thought I was crazy that I worked for myself .PS your fortunate to leave PDX when U did it has turned into a cess pool .. the powers to be have let the homeless basically ruin one of the great cities in the US  at least for the time being.. all of us who live in bergs unless we have to no one goes downtown anymore and many of the resturants are relocating to the burgs were as you probably remember the burgs were devoid of anything remotely unique or fine dinning. 

And if you cant rescue these and they end up in default you ARE going to end up in legal trouble 95% of the time.. you ruin someones credit and they are not happy..

Just like with medical issues got cancer, got a weird bump?

wow, can't imagine if we started flipping in Rome, Jim......lot of ruins  lolhttps://globalnews.ca/news/9655283/roman-coins-buried-treasu...Carlos, I actually got my start in renovation flipping three condos in Athens, Greece.