Rick Dad, Poor dad has a nice chart in it about spending, but it you were able to save enough to buy a rental you can skip the book.I also found that anything written by "The Donald" is a waste of time.Check out the posts about the fifty percent rule and watch jon do the math a few times.

I had these strange mustache hairs that were growing upward and into my nose instead of downward.

Tenant moved in with no painting done and the house was a uncleaned, with carpets hold massive amounts of animal hair from previous tenant.

Example could you take data from census like housing starts and building permits, existing home sales, sales tax movements, housing market index, ect. and map it out like stock charts do, then use something similar to technical analysis as a predictor?

Good point Jon, I usually try to make it short, sometimes things are more involved and still only scratch the surface.I do skim long posts, those asking a question but first have to tell us how many kids they have, hobbies, favorite dinner, favorite song, color of hair and eyes, not sure if they are asking a real estate question or trying to date someone. ;)I just can't resist mentioning my old buddy from the Sunshine State;@Dion DePaoli  LOL :)

I might ask who else had red hair in my family (both my Mom and Dad did, as I did as a child).

She said she's a hair dresser. 

Take the hair cut and move on.Maybe take the haircut on the land and use the cash to improve the house.  

We were eventually successful, however it took 18 days for us to get Flipkey to agree to get the seller's approval to transfer the funds.So I lost a lot of hair last month as we worked through what seemed to be one roadblock after another.  

To answer your question, I'd generally say I'm a hair closer to Frederick than Leesburg, but it really depends on where in Frederick or Leesburg we're talking about.