If you are serious about achieving your goals, you can’t have any excuses - make it happen!

Please don't try to make excuses on their behalf. 

To all those people who gave backhanded compliments about his areas housing being so cheap or what great luck he had with his timing, I can guarentee that if you were presented the exact opportunity as Mike, each and every one of you would have found an excuse to NOT take action.We had an old saying on the CME trading floor "excuses are like butt holes, we all have them, and they all stink!"

Please excuse the grammatical deficiencies above.

And it was a great start to a relationship that is still alive years later.On the other hand: I had a licensed broker recommended by an investor friend in Indianapolis, flew out there to look at the market and meet him, partnered with a local to me friend who had done local flips (that was my first flip, but I was no REI novice) and has an advanced accounting degree, also had the friend vet the broker and each property he brought to our consideration for a flip, finally agreed on a specific property after months of turning down others, signed a very specific (our attorney-drawn) contract that outlined project management responsibilities by the broker, kept in touch through the (delayed) process (and numerous excuses that - at that time - did not seem unreasonable,) flew out there again when the rehab was completed (and found a bunch of issues “on the surface” that he quickly addressed,) only to eventually lose a lot of money through the broker’s apparent negligence and downright fraud...

Finding good tenants costs me money, so if they're already in front of you, why not try to say yes, instead of trying to find a legal excuse to say no?

I had the mindset that I needed to be educated before I jump into real estate and that the DMV area was too expensive for a beginner but that mindset started to become an excuse.

Looks like I have no excuse to not attend so I will be attending my first BPCon. 

So not to overly lean on the excuse of the pandemic as some may do, but more sharing the data that anyone can pull up regarding rentals profitability, vacancy, and eviction rates for years 20’- 22’. . . .

Not an excuse for inaction, I realize that.