It certainly beats the crap out of working an additionl 40 hrs/week to gain overtime salary.Maybe it's more like this-- it's better ROI to put your cash in a money market account than keep it under your mattress; but it's better to put it into an index fund than a money market; better still to select a prize-winning stock; better still to correctly pick hedge funds/explosive growth companies, etc., etc.

Some things like mattresses I ordered online, some items I got from the Habitat store and some from the local stores there.I semi-lived in the property during a lot of the renovation.

It's like buying a mattress - if you dont know anything about it, you are getting screwed over. i hate dealing with tenants about the carpet during their move out process....installed a new carpet last year. now they are moving out and the carpet is stained (not spills, but like they never took their shoes off). most likely it was a cheap carpet, but what do i know?

And still manage to lose out to homeowners with (mattress money)as we like to call it here.

I can't blame people for not trusting banks and essentially stashing their money under a mattress.

There are a few things in the property such as a dresser, mattress, box-spring, and garbage, but nothing else really.It looks to me like she is gone.What should I do?

In this attic there were 10 vacuum cleaners, 7 TVs, 8 mattresses, 8-10 microwaves, mountains of clothes, several bowling balls, pots and pans for 10 housholds, and several tons of other junk collected from at least 20 years of tenants.

Cash in the mattress?

If a paid off house and or mattress money makes him happy, he should do that!

I have (although do not currently) managed buildings in two of the absolute worst neighborhoods on the island- where toddlers play on old discarded mattresses laying by the roadside in broken glass- but still applied the same criteria when obtaining new tenants for these properties.