You know there's an old saying that pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.

Starting in 2011 when DH went on sabbatical from his horrible day job, I started to read this forum, fat wallet's property forum, the MMM real estate forum and I even bought a couple of property investing books. 

Ive got one...i am paying my mortgage every month...anyone else financed via sub prime? I am supposing that many here do...due to self employment, etc...

I constantly crunch the numbers almost monthly to see how much money I am making when including the amazing increase in the property's value each time I raise the rent and I do my math over and over so that I am excited and I can do the math in my head.So, when the tenant spit in my face my mathematical mind went into overdrive and this irate tenants idiotic move that resulted in an eviction just earned me a big fat paycheck.

Probably Iowa area as a preference, as they don't block muni networks, so really small cities there can build out fat pipes to the internet to attract telecommuters that need lots of bandwidth, but want small town population density, and short drive to 3 larger cities if you want to still have the occasional city experiences.

My concern is that real estate makes a big fat target for increased taxes in the future.A raise in capital gains taxes will hurt the 'appreciation' folks.

Am I being fed a big fat bologna sandwich or is it actually possible that they don’t keep those records?

I also have a nice fat $80K HELOC that I use to help fund investment purchases as needed just by going and asking for a check then paying a modest 2.25% interest only payment while the money is out (nothing when it isn't).

Goals:I want to own a fat portfolio of income properties in my life. 

Our cat is still fat, but she seems happier.