We did everything ourselves, so that was a lot of sweat equity.Needless to say, we are totally excited of the huge profit, considering this was all unplanned. 

It goes without saying that a lot will happen over the next decade, both planned and unplanned, but I'm hoping at point we could either go in 1 of 2 directions: a) either we go ALL IN with real estate, with either 1 or both of us leaving our full-time jobs to focus on real estate or b) we focus to putting together a reliable property management team in place, so we can reap the long term benefits of real estate investing without all the day-to-day 24/7 responsibilities of land lording.Now the questions I have are: how do I get there and what steps do I need to put in place?

They simply have an unplanned need.

It allows me the peace of mind in knowing that they are replaced on time and gives me an opportunity to inspect for HVAC issues and head it off before they become emergencies or unplanned expenses.

That being said, you can get insurance that will cover unplanned assessments for things like natural disasters.  

Hard money is madness to me unless you have both a solid exit strategy AND the money to plan for the unplanned hiccup in that strategy but yeah, agreed, short term?

Every arrangement is nice and friendly, until the unexpected (or unplanned for) happens.

These interesting times, all it takes is for them to lose their job, unplanned bills, etc., and they could fall behind on rent.

Guys, I have a duplex that’s about 100 years old that I bought back in 2016. At the time I had 2 Foundation inspections and both came back clean.  (One even said “this is over 100 years old and will easily last anothe...

It was my first swing and it was unplanned, I just saw a property that looked like it would make a great little short term rental and shot from the hip.