Stash away the bulk of your income and set up a recurring, automatic deposit so you never even "miss" the money.

this is one big Texas wholesaling companies standard SOP's  great western something.. just a joke really.. 

I have about 26k stashed away specifically for a down payment and contribute an additional 1.5k every monthly paycheck to this account so I'm estimating 38k in savings by the time our lease expires.

There are snowmobile trails right near the house which would cater to the snowmobiling community and it even has a garage they could stash their sleds in when rented.

I assume that this property is in Southern California ;-)The $40k figure only covers the second and other holding costs, the first would be additional and I am not sure how much or how little this joker has actually made until I see the evidence or get my report from Welks Fargo.

Sounds like a plan, I've started stashing stuff around the house and reminding the wife not to get rid of certain items.

My goal was to have that mortgage paid off as early as I could so that I could stash a sum of cash away for when my son begins college, have 100% equity to draw off of if necessary, and have a substantial cash flow from rent to offset his college expenses.This summer, I crunched the numbers again and realized paying extra didn't make sense any longer and the extra money in my pocket today was worth more than continuing to shorten my loan.  

So we know that putting money in the bank or in a safe will end up costing us money, in the end, as inflation is real, and savings accounts and mattress stashes will lag inflation.

For my personal taste I do not mind.Software:Personal Capital: to track all my financial accounts (credit, bank, investment, I also use their manual account option to track personal lending and cash I have stashed)Google sheets: I log every transaction I make on a daily basis and categorize them then I can look back at a pivot by different details such as month and category.

As for me, I'm stashing cash and waiting for the next market correction where the opportunities will abound.