If your trip was primarily for busi-ness and, while at your business destination, you exten-ded your stay for a vacation, made a personal side trip, or had other personal activities, you can deduct only your business-related travel expenses.

This is like the Loch Ness monster.

Quote from @Ryan Ness Nessss: Quote from @Robert Rixer: I always say investors don't spend nearly enough actually looking for deals and developing creative strategies for getting good deals.

It didn't end up serving me, and I started having to ask hard questions - who am I when all of the BUSY-NESS falls away?

Quote from @Ryan Ness: This is awesome!

@Michael Norwoodall of the things you listed are viable options, but some of them are at opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of time and hands-on-ness. 

This has worked well so far and we are considering purchasing other rental properties in the area.Clearly this would come with high turnover, potential for damage (and general gross-ness haha). 

And than the internet, we were all supposed to be living the birth of this great planetary kumbaya where we'd all hold virtual hand's, our great specie "one-ness"..... 

(Smaller investor - holding properties in just one entity)My Must-haves:- manage multi portfolios- document management- auto import/connections to bank accounts- ability to handle tenant payments within the system (there are many varying levels of this across the spectrum, I just need a subset)- end of year/reporting/tax prep help- maintenance request workflow (with tenant and contractor logins/communication)What I really like about stessa - - low cost- the dashboards- unit listing and application/screeningwhat i do not like about stessa- sometimes broken-ness of bank connectivity- they went from free to paid and took away features and didnt grandfather existing users- lack of maintenance trackingI have not tried the application screening process in stessa yet.

With retirement sthill in mind I figure if I can save up 2k a month I can generate enough saving twice a year for down payment on a rental property, create passive income there and once I have built a ness egg for myself then start my TSP back up but at this point I will have residual coming in and my debt to income ratio will be low.