How to get my wife involved more

[Andy Wu]

I bought 9 rentals in last two years. 8 of them are single family house in good area. In average it meets 1% rule.  Now I have 10 loans on my name, my wife do not want any loan on her name. I already told her that I will take care all the management work. I just feel frustrate that I am paying higher rate due to her refuse to apply the loan. Now the problem is even worse as I am hitting the threshold 10. The next one need to be portfolio loan, that means even more reserve and higher rate.

How to persuade my wife to involve more and eventually agree to apply loan on herself.  She usually says she is too busy to read a book or a podcast.  She enjoy surfing the internet reading news but not book and seminar.  What should I do?

[Owen Dashner]

You are going to have to eventually look at portfolio/commercial loans/private money anyway if you keep growing, why not just do it now and accept it as the cost of doing business.  Like Dawn mentioned, you can't make somebody enjoy doing something just because you do.

Maybe she will come around in the long-term, maybe she won't.  But there's no sense in risking resentment from your wife when you have other alternatives available.  

Remember: Happy wife = Happy life