In my city if you simply go through the motions to rent out a house the laws will ensure that you go broke if you don't continue to adapt. I studied to be an investor, not a landlord. You could say I was a landlord for a while but I pushed through it. I'm now financially free through cashflow (and most landlords around here are still working hard because they never do a good job fixing up the houses or finding tenants therefore they have constant turnover and that's where they lose profit).
Anyway, I'm not in a place where I could do seminars. And even if I did I'm not sure I would want to because all of the real estate "investing" groups around here are all full of landlords and their pity party of negative stories about how bad tenants are. I don't want to associate with these people. They like to tell me what I cannot do. For example, when I have a vacant house I will take my weed wacker all the way around the block and make the sidewalk and the other yards look nice. That's what I do. But, for example, they would tell me I can't do that (they are technically right but no cop or neighbor is going to stop me for cleaning up neighborhoods and if I didn't do this type of thing, I probably would skimp on a lot of other things).
So, I wanted to first make the statement that most landlords, in my area at least, are not investors. They just created a job for themselves. Secondly, I would like to ask if anybody has a way to distinguish between which person is a landlord versus who is a forward-thinking investor focused on cash flow and financial freedom?
Anyway, I'm not in a place where I could do seminars. And even if I did I'm not sure I would want to because all of the real estate "investing" groups around here are all full of landlords and their pity party of negative stories about how bad tenants are. I don't want to associate with these people. They like to tell me what I cannot do. For example, when I have a vacant house I will take my weed wacker all the way around the block and make the sidewalk and the other yards look nice. That's what I do. But, for example, they would tell me I can't do that (they are technically right but no cop or neighbor is going to stop me for cleaning up neighborhoods and if I didn't do this type of thing, I probably would skimp on a lot of other things).
So, I wanted to first make the statement that most landlords, in my area at least, are not investors. They just created a job for themselves. Secondly, I would like to ask if anybody has a way to distinguish between which person is a landlord versus who is a forward-thinking investor focused on cash flow and financial freedom?
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