But a clogged toilet that's because of regular wear-tear over the years?

I had 125% inputted for Repairs and maintenance, 75% for Vacancy and 125% for Capital Expenditures 😅 just switched them all to regular percentages and it's now showing negative $1,030 cash flow with $3,530/mo expenses.

I enjoy managing my own rentals and like being able to regularly visit my properties.

This is one of the reasons it is regularly recommended.

My agent helped a lot when I was just a regular buyer but could hardly grasp the concepts or details/numbers in investing.

We sold our business and moved to Georgia following my husband’s job promotion.

Since I’ve always owned single family houses I don’t have experience on whether or not these type of properties are a good investment in comparation with regular homes. 

If commercial properties, you can seek loans from small local credit unions and banks that base it off of the debt service coverage ratio and regularly provide loans in the 7s.You can also seek commercial loans on residential properties as well.

There is low inventory everywhere and regular home buyers are buying the homes to flip, pushing the prices way up.

In fact there is absolutely nothing wrong with the above described technique as long as it's fully disclosed and UNDERSTOOD by all parties.John is "disgraced" because he got involved as front man with a Salt Lake City real estate marketing firm that promoted John all over late Nate TV back around 1998 - 2003.