The meet-up is light on the paid-guru stuff, and they bring out fantastic speakers.

I use Quicken for my personal finances and to see balances in business bank accounts.All my rental and expense stuff I keep in Excel.

Ok, I'm throwing this out more as an interesting situation to show the unexpected stuff that can happen.

You can get a decent handyman to do the small stuff and for anything big you need a licensed person.

But it's stuff like this that makes it really tough to manage properties in the state."

capital gain and passive activity is very different you can't offset each other.see to make this PAL stuff to be make sense you need to combine it with 2 years tax-free first 500k primary buy/sell, 1031 , syndication and development/flipping activity.

IDI Core is more for private detectives and stuff like that

Couple weeks out of work, a car accident, stuff happens.

I have a had that happen a few times.. you learn this stuff as it happens to you.

I took this out of Tim Ferris' book: don't delay all the fun stuff to your retirement.