You buy investments and everything goes well, so you sit back on your laurels thinking this is a pretty easy gig.

QB really is not made well for landlords and landlords leave QB every day for better software, payment processing is really expensive, and with QB there's no tenant portal for your tenants to schedule payments or push maintenance requests. 

I was thinking about that as well until I came across doing a trust instead, so next time I'm just going to setup a trust and take that route and have someone else mange the trust while using my llc to protect other assest 

A whole lot to be wary of- well, lagoon system and then those POH trailers. 

I am from the Boston area as well.

Well, of course it depends on the individual circumstances, the amount of time comitted and the capital available.

Occasionally there is some decent Savings in those relationships as well.

I can think of a lot of reasons a particular business initiative might fail other than flawed data, and these indexes are more fundamentally part of their core business that seems to have done quite well.

My wife and I have overhauled our personal budget to reflect the 'pay yourself first' approach (allocate in order: income comes in -> invest -> donate -> fixed expenses -> variable expenses -> fun $$).We are looking to see what experienced people generally recommend for a holding tank for that 'invest' allocation while we target our first real estate deal.What financial vehicles have you guys used that works well for this?

Are you doing mls deals as well or only off markets?