Everytime you are investing as a value add play you are improving:-household quality-quality of the service provided to the tenents-management-decreasing expenses and increasing appreciation of the propertyYour shareholders get their capital plus a return-Your track record as someone to do business withIs that enough?

We live in Northern Kentucky and for the last 10 days the AC has been running non-stop (24 hours per day - we have a NEST that tracks actual data) with an AVERAGE household temperature of 78 (the AC actually doesn't cool down to the anticipated 72 degrees). 

My household income is approximately $80,000 more right now than back when I was a single guy just learning about real estate investing.

In addition to this the seller collects the city water bill (based on ppl/household) from each unit monthly and pays the city.

Get our household goods delivered, wife says this is number 1 with a bullet!

Nothing wrong with that but you can see how that household income can certainly provide a cushion if their wholesaling business is only making $30k/year yet technically they are "full timers".

Honestly,I'm still not sure what I want to be when I grow up Christian.I'm thinking of getting out of my current job anyway,and that is the reason for thinking about getting the RE license.It's simply time for me to do something different.I'm becoming miserable and while i'm not opposed to changes I am opposed to being miserable :)The wife and I have discussed it and we aren't opposed to selling our current home.With the cash from the sale it would be possible to buy at least 3 decent rentals.We could rent out 2 and live in one for awhile while we look for more.I've lived the high life with over 150k household income a year and the lowest in which I slept behind a chicken factory for a couple nights on the ground.Even if we only end up with a couple houses it would add to the income stream.I don't have a clue if this is what I want to do with my life or not.I've weighed the pros and cons and even if I fail miserably it won't be an issue other than pride.And i'm too smart to fail,I'm just hoping this time I won't get bored.

I guess I just thought those things were like pools, no matter what happens in them, chlorine takes care of it all!

Times two incomes per household.

The median household income is one of the highest in northeast Ohio at $82,000.