You need to also take care of the following. 1.Fixing up a vacant rental so it can be rented out again.a.We had handy men to do most of this, but with 40 rentals my husband and I had to pitch in a do the labor ourselves as well.b.I would paint the house and garages.c.Husband would fix the repairs inside2.I would take care of the tenants.This entaileda.Taking care of advertising the homes (usually we had more than one vacancy at a time)b.Taking phone calls and screening tenantsc.Scheduling open housesd.Staging the housee.Interviewing the applicantsf.Making sure I double checked their application formsi.Criteriaii.Employersiii.Verifying funds and income3.Typing up the lease and making sure they understood the lease4.Then making sure the Tenants abided by the lease agreement5.Paid their rent on time6.And sent that Notice to Quit for Non Payment of Rent the very first day rent is late.On top of that I did my own evictions and I never lost a case and I dealt with the 36th District Court in Detroit.I won because I covered my butt by having everything in writing.I documented everything.Every phone call I made to them and every phone call they made to me.I never complained to a tenant because they called regarding a repair.I listened when they told me they couldn’t pay their rent, but even though I understood their problem, I made them pay their rent anyway.Landlording is about making tough decision and doing things you don’t like to have to do.Landlording is a Business.You have to not LOVE YOUR HOUSE.I can’t stress this enough.If you don’t know or understand that this is a business of evictions, damages, and injustices, and fixing this house up over and over again, you aren’t going to be happy let alone successful.How I wish I could be there for every new investor to help them understand what it’s like to be a landlord BEFORE YOU INVEST.But I can’t and that’s really a shame because it something every new investor should dig into before they invest.One last thing.

How can you have the seller's best interest in mind if you are too ashamed to tell him/her how much you are taking? 

Which is really a shame because it's basically the same general area and it's super common for people to live and work in different parishes.But now I better understand why it is indeed, so difficult.

Yes, what a shame about erentpayment.com...

It's really a shame because the code where I own my investment property does not have an owner-occupancy restriction to permit an ADU--as it should be if a town wants to increase the supply of housing!

It’s a shame we have to wade through so many idiots and trolls to get a general conversation of people’s experiences and advice.

It's a shame; if more people understood the basics of building wealth the world would be in a better place.Anyway, soap box over.

I've looked at hard money no doc loans. but 1.) seems a shame to go that route when I have so much equity and credit score of 830 and 2.) it's EXPENSIVE and leaves little room for profit.  

With your high level of income, it would be a shame to not invest your money in appreciating, cash generating assets.

At one property I own that's high traffic (with a bar across the street) it's a shame because anything decent gets swiped and I know if I provide my tenants with a picnic table the bar patrons will sit on the table and cause late-night disturbances (heck, they've left empty bottles on my tenants' front steps).