There's still a cost for going this route, but its much less expensive and time consuming than getting your license.

We are living in a time when consumers have the greatest access to research, reviews and reference information to look up who or what is best in literally seconds, and our society promotes doing this non-stop.

Of course this is all still market dependent which is why its important to learn the market(s) you are buying in and what the average consumer is looking for.

Maintenance, small repairs, consumables Internet: $100 / month? 

Keep doing your RE sales deals (forget about going to work for a PM company as another suggested, that is time consuming and stressful work.

Although, I was putting in a lot of work I feel like I can be more productive if I cut off the time I spend CONSUMING social media.

My concerns are the amount of margin that will be consumed by financing the property as well as capital gains taxes and possible holding costs.

In order for something like this to pass muster, I would think you would need to have an arms-length company in place that could provide Consumer you with a written quote for the job based on fair market prices and reasonable profit for Contractor you, and then maybe at least one or two other quotes from competitors.

While most people may jump to the idea of building an addition to the house, that endeavor can be both expensive and time consuming.

. :)Rents will likely track with overall consumer inflation, but you mortgage payments are fixed, so the more inflation, the bigger your profit margin.Interesting times, for sure.