My friend had an issue with a detached parking area being the place for deals and ditching stolen cars.

I was an aerospace engineer in my past life (5+ years ago) and when I was doing that, REI started presenting itself and I eventually got into the place of wondering...do I keep my job and keep investing or do I ditch the job (I hated both the job and the corporate structure) or...what do I do?

The whole point of paying them off as much as possible as soon as possible is 1) help eliminate liability risk in the event the market changes, rent rolls decrease, W2 income disappears etc and 2) Be in a position where I can fully leverage them again in 4 - 7 years when I am ready to acquire another 4 - 10 duplexes, small apartment building etc and ditch the W2 for good.For those that deal with rentals and used them as a way to ditch your 9-5, how did you do it?  

If your house is increasing in value 2% each year ($8,000), it might be better to let appreciation do the work rather than making early payments on your mortgage.I don't know what your exact numbers are, but let's say you reach a point where an $8,000 pre-payment will allow you to ditch PMI a year early.  

offers some sound advice about ditching a buyer broker and going right to the listing broker.

:D  But, as a last ditch, we could always identify an Inland offering and go that route, if needed.

I just ditched a property manager that allowed a SFH to sit vacant for three months at market rent while everything else around it was rented with ease. 

I can't help but to think that most sellers are ditching their property because they have some underlying issue with it; an issue that will be very costly in the future.

The bottom part backs right up to a ditch that the city diverts street rainwater into when it rains, and when it rains hard, this part of my yard will flood, which makes my yard pretty boggy and unusable for several weeks after.  

We'd hate to have seen this little gem fall into disarray.Bottom line, we're ditching our property management company.