We got cheap flights and we spent a week on the ground painting, etc.

Also, the cost of home ownership in the US has some expenses that are not as readily considered for first time buyers here, US has higher rates for homeowners ins. for example/// having to spend $400 for an international flight every time he comes out to the property etc.

No sense taking loads of laundry down 2 flights of stairs.

Are the potato processing plant and flight school still operational?

Although I like the idea, an evening of cocktails for an hour, in houston....bit of a long flight for me.

However, due to continuous "white flight" the suburbs great middle class and upper middle class areas, and the auto industry still does exist.

Now, I get the opportunity to spend a week with people from a variety of occupations including engineers, doctors, IRS agents, internet marketers, pilots, book/magazine authors, artists, surgeons, movie directors, bankers, teachers, flight attendants, lawyers, the list goes on and on and does include real estate investors too.

But lucky that though 3rd floor unit only one flight of stairs as everyone else is ground or basement in this building so a good situation.

I can write off my hotel and flights?

Short flight and cheap cash flow houses.