Vehicle expenses are one of the major costs to consider, so living nearby helps reduce those expenses and saves you time.

Managing real estate, and doing it well, is an entirely different story.I would keep your eyes open for a book that teaches you how to manage well.

It's tough, the rents have gone up so quickly over the last few years that rentometer has had a tough time keeping up. 

Whether you’re new to investing, looking to expand your portfolio, or interested in starting your own short-term rental, I’d love to connect and share my insights.I’m here to keep learning and contributing to the community that’s helped me so much.

People keep posting on BP with poor ADU appraisals (and this matches what I hear at RE meet ups), but for some reason there is a reluctance to believe these posts.  

Please keep those posts in the Classifieds forum.Need a spreadsheet or form?

He didn't want the walls, so he could  keep his cost low.

Seems like the list of "to do's" keeps going and going, ha! 

It isn't the metric you can talk about on a national scale, but if you keep buying the same product in the same area it is a very easy quick and dirty method to know how you are doing compared to other buys. 

That's why they keep having to adjust the clocks with leap year and at other times as well because these rules of thumb are not perfectly accurate.