What you say reflects what I have been hearing about Texas auctions--that people who have little knowledge and are afflicted with auction fever bid properties even above their market value. 

Real Estate is a very big industry, with that the most common affliction that plagues people is "Shiny Object Syndrome".

(Cruel: Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.) 

You have a lot of company in your "analysis paralysis" affliction ;-) It happens to most REI when they first start out.

I think your greatest barrier is "analysis paralysis..." a very common affliction.

Makes me wonder if the people who say such things are the afflicted.

I typically earn about $300/mo by sweeping cash against debt.I use a desktop based QB that was purchased a decade ago and has no monthly subscription fee.I find that data is mainly helpful in overcoming "expectation bias" which is the human affliction that causes us to assume our favorite properties are the best performing properties.

From one former infantryman to another nearly all of us have a bit of tinnitus (10% VA disability) and degenerative back disease (back arthritis).If you have at least 10% disability you don’t have to pay the VA loan funding fee which is over 2% ($4,000 for a $200k Loan).

We have an affliction.

Next week, for the whole week I'll be a social worker treating those afflicted with real estate investor syndrome, a condition of that effects many who fail to realize reality with grandiose tendencies....