I hope you like smokers, because they all smoke like chimneys and have no regard for flicking butts on your property....eventually my parents went on a trip and of course the sober house people had a perfect view of them loading up their luggage, and what ya know after 25 years of not a single crime...they were burglarized, by a homeless junky ******* that was friends of one of the residents or was a previous resident....The sober house operators were ******** and not cooperative....their are more than a few of their patients were loud obnoxious gang banger types, giving the hard stares and intimidation types of attitude.Lastly.... on more a general note... the affordable health care act made some seriously horrible changes to the way insurance can deal with addictions....it used to be that their was a limit to how many sober claims a patient could make, and then the insurance company turned off the tap....now, a patient can relapse as much as they want and the insurance has to allow them back into another sober program...it essentially incentivizes the sober programs to fail, because it assures them a steady flow of repeat customers.Lastly, I found the few sober house operators that I came into contact with, during this time, to be vile phony insurance fraudsters and street urchins, acting like their title made them actual healthcare providers.Just my 2c...and sincerest apologies to the 10%(if that) of the industry that are a really providing a quality and ethical service.

Think long term and enjoy all the mailbox money.

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I'm particularly passionate about building wealth via real estate investment.Outside of real estate, I enjoy being out in the nature .. 

You have almost 50% equity, so enjoy your low interest rate and at some point you'll be able to easily refinance or get a heloc or home equity loan. 

But rest assured, any built-ins, any woodwork, doors and windows, anything "nice" in the house that you put it once upon a time for yourself to enjoy is going to get damaged.I am closely related to a guy who moved out of his house five years ago to a new house, with the intention to fix up the old property a bit and rent it, and yet his old house has sat empty for five years and he's paid holding costs for out of pocket.

Depending on your state, you may be able to enjoy a step up in basis upon the death of a spouse.Non-Community Property StatesIn every state but the community property states, spouses are treated as joint tenants with rights of survivorship (JTROS).

How could somebody smoke through that much cash that fast.

They cracked (not smashed) a window and removed and threw away the smoke detectors. 

I'm particularly passionate about Single family homes.Outside of real estate, I enjoy Spending time with my family and friends and spoiling my first grandchild.Excited to learn and connect with you all!