My ultimate goal is to have a portfolio that has enough cash flow where my wife or I could quit our day jobs (who are we kidding, it will most likely be my wife).My dilemma/thoughts: obviously the property or two that I invest in will have to cash flow more than the $$ I will have to pay on the borrowed equity (roughly $130/mo). There

Kids, they love to play around a construction site, lots to do.Just thinking about the LL's I've known, past away or retired, nursing home party animals, they thought they were passing on a cash flowing business to the kids.

Holy Mary Mother of . . .

No problems for one year.Then the "cousin" came to "visit" from "out of state", and her baby and her boyfriend and another couple and their baby and the tenant's ex-girl friend, the mother of the three children.

I think some states have enacted laws where they won't foreclose if delinquent tax bills are under a certain amount as seniors were getting foreclosed on when they forgot to pay or in a nursing home or something, but not sure that covers HOA dues.

My goal is to get out of the nursing field.

Her house is on 10 acres of land that were gifted to her from my father and mother-in-law.

It has been like that since I've owned it, it was given to me by my mother in 2006.

Being a woman, and a wife and mother, I can totally understand where your wife is coming from

The mother came in and asked what I was doing and I told her I was trying to find whatever had started leaking down the wall.