Loose stones, grass in-between, pain to shovel etc.

I wouldn't recommend land flipping as a strategy unless you are prepared to entitle the sites and spend money on soft costs to have the sites shovel ready.

Plus you'll have 1 year of rental income and experience which will help when talking to lenders.Right now maybe the best use of the 2.99% interest rate and $150K of equity is your low living costs which gives you a big shovel you can use to stack cash.

I don't want to dig for gold, I want to sell shovels.

In Milwaukee it is very common on a duplex for the tenants to cut the lawn and shovel the snow and have had okay results for 15 years with that.

My own father once told me when I was a teenager trying to clear out a 200 foot driveway of snow with him using shovels after a blizzard: "Take smaller bites."

Some keep shoveling coal into the firebox of the locomotive as it rolls off the cliff.If the cliff is deep enough, they are gone financially.If the cliff is not very deep, they hold on as best then can and wait for the good times to begin again.It depends on how deep your pockets are and how much equity you have and how "house of cards (row of dominoes) your portfolio is.The hard stories are those who lose their own homes to bank repo due to downturns in the real estate investment market.Like the three little pigs, build your house (investment portfolio) of straw, wood, or brick, all have differing abilities to withstand a storm.Good Luck!

We then had to have the reclamation people come out after we spent three hours shoveling the poo out.

Maybe I even get a good deal on snow shovels during the off-season and allow people to keep one.

30 years ago we used to get a couple of decent snows a year but in the last 10 years I'd guess at least 6 or 7 of them I never even took my snow shovel out of the shed.