I would milk it to the last drop.

The barn is about 60 x 40 with a big hay mow and concrete basement where the cows used to be milked and fed.

So my tenant at the house filled up 5 milk crates worth of the walnuts and gave them to us. 

While most probably are not there, one year for reserves for your personal life is really the goal, your personal financial security should not be milked by a poor quarter, IMO.

This time the harass a woman who requested her breast milk to be screened through the alternative screening methods that the TSA itself advertises.

Money Mustache blog (they sent me to you guys).

Hold on to this cash cow, milk it, pull all the equity out in a cash out refinance, which is not a taxable event, put it in a trust, and hand it off to your heirs.Or if you love the velocity of money and are looking for the biggest bang for your buck, sell it.

From the sound of it you and your mom are nice people and the PMs are likely trying to milk extra money out of you. 

Go where the money IS...not the guru land of milk and honey. 

I learned quite a bit from each conversation and made sure to keep the phone discussions short and focused (10 minutes max) so I was giving them a fair shot at my business but not milking it for free advice.