I explained the dead money, safe money, healthy money and the wealthy money concepts.

This is how I increase the odds of a healthy return.Now, if you're living on site, you want to be comfortable.

The 15 Jobs That Are Most Damaging to Your HealthI am a Histology Tech.

When he was healthy he could build a house by himself, do all the plumbing, electricity, interior and exterior.

Interesting to know that not every MLS software has that function.I'll take this opportunity to wish you guys and your extended families, a very Merry Christmas, and a healthy, happy & prosperous 2014.

I feel like the chance of losing everything due to being sued is much less than the risk of losing everything cause one had too much debt.I definitely agree with a healthy mix.

My take is you would need to acquire this property in the range of 140 - 180K to give you a fighting chance of being able to upgrade it to be a modern, efficient, and healthy home for your tenants.

While they were at it, I had them do the two properties in-between ours: one is another rental; the other is an elderly lady whose health is deteriorating.Today, I went over to place snow shovels at the two properties and noticed that the neighbour landlord had trimmed all of his trees that were overhanging our roof.

I use a spreadsheet with 5 different columns and some have higher than expected expenses/vacancy, or reduce the rents by 10-15% to make sure I can handle less than ideal scenarios while still making a healthy return.

As an Investor, you want all the numbers to be "healthy" (and healthy can be a wide spread for some categories).