It's free to sign up for an account and the savings account has a very competitive interest rate.

With inflation driving up day-to-day expenses, saving enough to buy your first home is more of a challenge.

More doors means less vacancies and it might motivate you to save up and buy a new SFR when you are ready to settle down.

The rehab took 5 months and I did 90% of the work myself, saving $30k but losing a lot of time.

I do well, at least enough to go on vacations as a family, put money into high yield savings accounts, max out the ROTHs and add to investments when I can with money saved in savings and checking accounts.

Hey everyone, I’m just curious if any of you have any good links to blogs about saving money on food costs for a family.

Ultimately it would boil down to your personal risk tolerance.

Do the math and you'll see it doesn't make sense.The best way to invest: increase earnings, reduce expenses, and save.

I agree, its easy to say oh I want cash flow, but ultimately, most of the gains are made with appreciation and principal paydown over long periods of time. 

Sounds like I can safely write them off only after I purchase the rental and start the renovations to ultimately rent it out.