Risk=Reward@Jeff Kehl These are all  tough decisions that I am sure we can get a few well-experienced REI to respond to: Does @Gino Barbaro want to start us off here?

Take into account RE taxes, Mortgage interest, charitable donations, large medical expenses, ect...compare it against 2017's total.If you took a look against the rental but used the proceeds for personal use- IE to pay off your personal residence the interest would not be deductible as a business expense. 

The stuff you do is a tad more risk and should be a little more reward.

Next time I would at least do the initial showing- it can really be a very rewarding experience after all of that hard work.

It’s a crazy but very rewarding ride. 

Getting that voice takes work, just as learning useful things also takes work.But if the numbers rather than the names attached to the votes matter all that much to someone, I don't think real estate is going to be a very rewarding field for that person.

I would look at the rewards offered by the home improvement store you use.

First buy yourself a small reward, you worked hard - celebrate!

I live quite modestly relative to my income and I'm young enough that I'm fine jumping into a job again if I need to, so I've got a pretty high risk tolerance (so long as it has comparable reward potential, of course).I've been planning on just making money off the investment income, but I've always been rather interested in real estate investing and it occurred to me recently that I will probably have an easier time getting a mortgage now with my income than I will in a couple months when I don't have an active income.

I’m trying to balance the risk and the reward but it seems like everyone has a different scale.