This what they did: Develop an accurate budget for spending in retirementUnderstand the options available through Medicare and the cost of those optionsReview Social Security benefits, and identify the optimal time to begin drawing benefits to maximize the likelihood that your financial plan will be successfulUnderstand the mechanics behind taking portfolio withdrawals to support your financial needsAssess the impact of a potential long-term-care need on your overall retirement plan

Complete remodel - roof, stucco, windows, doors, trim, granite, refinished kitchen cabinets, lighting, bathroom vanities, toilets, surrounds, flooring, paint, termite treatment and repair, finished the garage, new landscaping, restored the pool with new mechanicals, new furnaces & water heater What was the outcome?

@David Lee Hall, IIIWhen people use auto responders through meet up groups or others; you have to see if they have dont funding in your area and the state. 

Once you have good tenants this is on auto pilot so why give away money to a PM?

I'm just puzzled at some of the posts suggesting that depreciation recapture is income, or even worse, TAXABLE income.This whole recapture thing is simply a mechanism whereby the IRS takes back a tax break or some of it, that it had given out in the past.

My Goal:  Put on auto garage doors and park my car in the left side of the 2 car garage, but because it's a single lane driveway it needs to be clear to drive up to the garage (hence, he loose his 2 car driveway parking). 

I simply rounded up to the nearest 1000.so if the payment was 1200, I paid 2k  if it was 1800 I paid 2k... set it up on auto pay and forget it.when the crash happened ..

I am a Navy veteran with the background of submarine auxiliary mechanic for 9 years.  

Landlording on Auto-Pilot, the E-Myth, etc.), but I have more time available to listen to them versus actually reading them so I've been looking into audiobooks.

And if you add in other major mechanical things...it might run up to $10k...also on the lower rent range you will need to have a higher percentage because while a roof's cost will vary by the size and class of the property...things like heat and air and water heater and appliances are relatively fixed therefore being a larger percentage of your rent.