There will be pitfalls and challenges, but compared to a book that doesn't lay out a clear and competent vision like that one does, I think it's worth its weight in gold.

Front door could be a fancy shmancy $1000 door with double side lights where the opening has to be rebuilt and toilet seats with gold inlays.

The previous landlord is a gold mine of information.Good luck!

For me this is a great reason to buy and hold hard assets such as real estate, gold, etc.

I always enjoy when I fly into Truckee to meet my old bud's from Napa .. we play gold at Old Greenwood then go to Whitehawk .. for  few days. 2.5 hours down from PDX. 

The gold american express I have and I think I can put a car on it and will not skip a beat just gives you more power to work with .

I must say I am familiar with the smart key having some security issues, but I use them at my residence too.If someone wants to get in a house, its really not that hard, my biggest concern would be someone breaking into a house when people are there, so I put a "Texas lock" on every exterior door (manual round thing that you would have to break the door down to get into), that is the best security for nights.I'm glad you brought up the smart key problems, its something I need to put more thought into,,,,I'm considering going to brushed nickel instead of gold for exterior hardware, that might be a good time to look at alternatives

With that little gold mine, you are a step closer to finacial freedome.

Read blogs, post questions, and the podcasts are gold!

Read blogs, post questions, and the podcasts are gold!