Ultimately it comes down to your long-term goals and how involved you want to be.

While I do enjoy the work, my ultimate goal was always to get into investing.  

I have the opportunity to get into a lease option for a property that I'd ultimately like to buy & hold, but I'm trying to figure out the rehab financing.

We ultimately spent a week researching LOCAL deals again... and guess what, we closed a duplex last Friday, marketed the vacant unit while under contract and that unit was signed this past Monday as well.

If a new landlord is not changed by the experience they likely will not survive. 

Maybe in 10 years, when I'm a seasoned investor who has survived the next recession, I will look back at this thread through a different lens.

For being the ultimate truth sayers here on BP.

I didn't feel comfortable working in this survival-oriented environment (the bottom rung of Maslow's hierarchy of needs), but I had a hungry mortgage to feed every month.Those times made me yearn for financial independence where I would more than cover my living expenses with investment income and not have to be concerned with the price of gasoline or the chip industry's "book to bill" ratio.

We just cleared our school loan debt and are working towards the ultimate goal of Financial Independence.

Real estate is impacted by macro factors but is ultimately hyper-local.