I am looking for a job that requires less hours and energy so I can spend more time analyzing and pursuing deals until eventually I reach financial freedom (let's call it passive 10k a month) and can quit my day job to further expand my real estate business.

if people would put as much energy into making themselves financeable, as they do making up strange one off, highbred, creative deal, smoke and mirror, hide the note structuring, the world would be a better place...IMHO.

For example, below is a comparison between the statewide energy cost in California vs.

The energy many people have here throughout BP is infectious! 

Not only that, but it all my coworkers hate their job as well so it is a continuous cesspool of negative energy.

I would put the energy there, unless you really want to go after him, then do it :)

If the house is owned out right and you just don’t have the time, money or energy to get it up to market value, selling it at a discount sounds good.

@Harrison CookYour post kindles lots of questions.In the "good old-days" most heating systems were vastly oversized for the building they were heating - energy was relatively cheap, insulation was non-existant to poor ... so it was easier and safer to {drastically} oversize.Today, while energy {in North America}  is still relatively cheap for the moment,  we have a much better understanding of how to make buildings more efficient {though you might not think so looking at the construction industry in the U.S.A. and Canada}  and there are often more cost-effective measures than simply replacing an old, over-sized heating plant with a new, over-sized heating plant.You really need to - or at lease should -  perform a heat load analysis to properly size your heating system, a component of which, is determining the rate of heat loss of the building envelope.  

My hubby is a seasoned journeyman carpenter with a good number of contractor connections nearby, and he's eager to stop working as a Union carpenter and put all of his energy into real estate investing.2.

Use the money, time and energy toward buying a house so you have something to protect.