Go fly in for the day, or better yet spend a night. 

They didn't want men gambling away the house in a poker game and leaving the women and children without a place to live.The intent I think for a home to be designated your homestead is that is where you live. 

Spend less to make more and look at 2-4 unit multifamily homes - more doors more income.If you have any questions feel free to reach out running the numbers is easy and it might be exactly wha you need to make the next move.  

It definitely is cumbersome and I could spend the time to “re-tool” it but I’m too busy hunting for deals and managing rehabs!

They are a wealthy family and I don't think they were bad folks or anything but they wanted to spend a lot of money bringing it up to snuff.

but if you're only doing this to help catalyze your investment path somehow... it's probably not going to help that much.the best way to build a network is just to spend time with other investors. 

Instead of spending a few thousand to remove the tree, you should be able to pour root killer in the line once or twice a year to ensure no further build-up.

Okay, Rand Paul has spoken up, but the rest are just part of the "happy machine" to keep spending our money (while keeping a very large cut, kinda like a mafia loan shark) to give to ourselves to "make us happy".

Other buyers/tenants.I don't think i need to spend time explaining 5 6 and 7 as they're not super important.

More than 1/2 of that is HOA issues, so if you don’t have them you should be spending 15 -30 minutes a year with a bookkeeper, a few hours without.