It took Thomas Edison 10,000 attempts before he had made a light bulb that finally worked the way he wanted it to. When asked about all of his failures he said "I have not failed. I just figured out 9,999 ways that do not work." Michael Jordan is considered by many to be the greatest basketball player of all time, yet he missed the hoop over 9,000 times including 26 that would have been game winners. Jordan also lost over 300 games, which is more games than many players get to play in the NBA. Instead of focusing on these failures he used them to motivate him to do better. Persistence is something that does pay off in Real Estate like it does in many other fields. Real Estate is not easy or everyone would be doing it, one of the problems is that too many people "try" at it and never get better. I've learned a lot from having had deals fall apart, many times because of no fault of my own or my clients, sometimes stuff just happens. An appraisal may not get the ...