15) Don’t quit your day job just yet
It seems like common sense, but too many real estate investors have gone belly-up with their finances because they relied too heavily on turn around profit or rental streams of income, and then the market took a downturn, leaving them with not enough cash flow to cover their income needs. Until and unless you have enough diversity in your real estate investments to cover downturns in the market or tenants who don’t pay their rent, you’ll need to keep working your day job.
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