Not too long ago, it was as easy to make money in real estate as it was to buy a house by tossing a dart at a map. This is not the case at the present time. From the moment you pick up the first map of the region until the deal is finalized, you'll need to keep your wits about you. The question is, what changed over time to make real estate investing such a bureaucratic mess? In the past, when the rules...