Maybe hire a general contractor for flips, a person assistant to pick up dinner/dry cleaning/etc., a cleaner once-a-week, etc.

All of the activities to do outdoors, people always lending a helping hand, weather is not boiling hot,  too many breweries and you never have to wait for 2 hours to sit down to dinner.  

@Michael Volek  No, seriously, I'm not joking...advancement here (the country in general, and specifically small cities like this one) is made through sharing smokes and bottles of alcohol at dinners.

But as I said I know of a case of a couple that had high income just didn't hold the jobs for long, routinely late on payments and knew which would be reported or not, always a week away from eviction but knows money talks, they are not section 8 so don't care, their credit score is over 700 just doesn't believe rent should come before a dinner out, they had a notice to quit but paid up by due date,  it is family (cringe) and I would never rent to them but if they want ac or granite would gladly be one that paid higher for it.

Climbing all over the counters and purr-rubbing their *** on the dinner plates, yuck.  

family life plays a big part in this thought process.think of the threads that say my sig other won't let me invest.pay check, home at 5 for dinner,  kids soccer game on sat.and make no mistake about it.. real estate is RISKY .. many people lose their butts at it.You just don't see those folks posting about it on BP.. what you see here is every one posting their success stories not their failures.. ( some do but not many) Like when their tenant trash's their rental and 5 years of cash flow went poof... or flipper lost 30k on a flip. 

Imagine you go out to dinner and the waiter says, "You look like you have more money so I am going to charge you more than anyone else here tonight." 

Take your mom and dad out for a nice dinner and find the next property.

He also likes that we take him to dinner once a month when we give him his check(s).       

If he is a self absorbed $@#& then call me and I will have dinner with youat Dawsons 2 by the Marsh lol.