I throw all vegetable scraps, banana peels, eggshells, etc. into a plastic composter all summer long.

One bad banana will turn the whole bunch rotten.

Now that these buggers are getting paid off the income is increasing and the depreciation doesn't cut it.With my existing 6 figure salary all this rental income is just cream on the top for Uncle Sam to skim off.

Cream rises to the top.  

When you see a overweight person pushing a shopping basket full of ice cream, something doesn't look right. 

Overall though, even self-managing, I can't go from extremely tax-advantaged (my effective tax rate has been negative for 13 years) to being creamed.

I would bet a bunch of bananas (or pineapples for you ;) that if we polled BP for their 'best deal ever', even wilder deals have happened.On the third point, I disagree with you.

New issuance in non agency mortgages is still very limited so the main culprit (in my opinion) of what drove the housing market bananas back then is absent today - we do have cheap money and quantitative easing which is helping drive the current home price appreciation - in my opinion, we won't nearly the same run up and we are still significantly below the peaks....having said that, most economists predict about 5% appreciation next yr and the yr after - and many feel that a correction may occur in the semi-near future (2-4yrs?)

The rest of the house had various colors, different in the BR's with a cream beige (hard to describe) in the LR, hallways.We ended up using another color we found in another rehab we liked which I don't have info on now because out of town.

@Sean Cole  or in other words the cream rises to the top  !!!...