Today is going to be one these days when I give you a little bit of tough love.

What you have to understand about real estate is that it doesn't take an incredible amount of intelligence--I mean that in a very positive way. It doesn't take a whole lot of luck either--if you're doing it right, you don't have to be incredibly lucky. What real estate does take is time. You can minimize it and try to keep it under control, but it's always going to take time.