However, I’m looking every day for fun when I have five minutes here and there on my down time throughout my day.

first of all, this is my first post, i am from argentina, after looking many ways to where to invest my money, i think the only one that i felt confident was purchasing a property in USAi purchased 2 apartments in Miami 2 years ago (115k usd total in that time), in the bottom of prices i think, now they worth 20% more, plus the rent (with a few extra costs, fixes and had to fire a tenant due non payment and pay sheriff stuffs).the process that we do for non united states residents is form a LLC and purchase the properties as a LLC, we paid some extras at the end of year for renew it but its ok.the overall experience was good.but after reading and reading and reading, i became to this great forum, and figured out that could have been even better.i could had purchase a multifamily property, a big one of 400k usd and do a 25% downtime payment with that 100k that i invested. but i think that i couldn't did that because i don't have credit score or history as foreigner.  

A few months ago I tore my bicep/had it re-attached lifting for strongman, which gave me some unanticipated down time. 

While working as a contractor in Afghanistan, I got tired of reading about wholesaling, flipping and listening various podcasts on my down time that I decided to just come back home and just do it.

A good tenant will keep your budget in check, you vacancy at zero, your downtime without a tenant due to rehabbing the apartment to zero and you hassle and stress level at zero. its not all about the cash flow.

Zero down time will put the most $ in your pocket.Thinking about DIY.

I think maintaining two jobs is the way to go, it takes the financial pressure off of you and you won't have so much down time.

Hope your rentals and rehabs are allowing you some down time!!!

At this point in my business I have the front desk employees at Holton-Wise stuffing direct mail letters during their down times every month.

But try to not slow it down, time is of the essence in this business.Expending 10 hours on a construction site at least once in your life and/or following the purchase process (for material and labor) during a few weeks  can give you a completely different perspective of many things, that also will help you to protect your time/money investment in the deal.You have to think for your market: how much you expect to charge for wholesale a property?