If you can get some cash flow from the real estate going and you know that your basic necessities are covered, it's a lot easier to go out on your own and start a new business.Happy to talk more if you like

@John Underwood thank you for the detailed response.To expand further on the furnishing question how much $$ needs to be spent to make it look like a home vs having the necessities?

We also show them how to use the shut-offs.Learning to work with tenants who may be uneducated and/or who lack critical thinking skills is also a necessity.

@Marc Maitre  I understand the necessity and reason for the title company.  

Is that something that's a necessity? 

Necessity is the mother of invention

Many would-be and active sponsors and dealmakers conflate their time with "yield" in these discussions and laud their necessity as a virtue. 

House hacking is a great tool if you are ok with moving every year or so, which means you would want to live lightly (not a lot of furniture, basic necessities so that its easy to move and not a huge ordeal) during that process. 

But these recurrent, seemingly excessive charges --- for which we have yet to receive photos to justify their necessity --- are starting to make us question our decision to hire them.

I bought one of the 8 BRs in Champions Gate this year and themed it out all Disney style, which I think is a necessity in this market.I just launched it a couple weeks ago and already have about $10k on the books for Nov and $11k for Dec.