Therefore, there is a significant benefit to having leases start in late spring to match the moving times of new doctors doing their residency and fellowships.If there are no circumstances that create a perfect lease time, maybe consider staggering your rentals, so you have less chance of multiple simultaneous vacancies.

Others have given some good advice ... prepare for expensive medical bills and for life without your husband.

I don't understand all the medical issues honestly, I have an idea of what it is, but do not know his functionality overall.

Once you see people who have emergencies, medical concerns, job losses, or divorces you soon realize that equity is not so safe after all because this stuff happens all the time.

Been having medical issues, allergies ugh, and Bronchial Asthma so I need to get my meds, just waiting on the Doctors office to fax the refills to the Pharmacy so I can breath again lol.

Get Licensed AND find no/low money down deals:  Your plan is a great way to get W-2 income, and also learn to evaluate costs and quality of repairs, and then to add value to your own properties.We recently were meeting a local lender in a posh beachy area, who said to us, "Surprisingly, my client with the most income is a plumber, not a doctor or lawyer."

Medical and credit cards aren't as worrisome as utilities and former landlords.

And, if you have a business or economic reason, such as loss of job, loss of income, medical emergency, etc., to explain why you move in early you will still be O.K. as long as you can demonstrate that you did have the intent to hold for rental or investment and then "something" happened and you had to move in.

I don't like the word "fantasy" as that implies a certain amount of implausibility - so I'll call it a long-term goal:Develop/Renovate a "mixed" Senior/Caretaker facility where Family/Friends can Move-In with special needs seniors who would otherwise be living out their final years in specialized care facilities.This facility would provide all the equipment and specialized medical care but without the isolation and callousness of traditional long-term care facilities.

Another strategy is to get them to jump through hoops early - "We can accommodate service animals, turn in a copy of the doctors orders with your application. " to save yourself some time.