Real estate will enable me to, at the very LEAST, replace the active duty portion of my income when I hit military retirement. 

You'll get burned once and then realize why everyone on these forums always says to put everything in a written contract.Always remember that when stuff goes wrong, everyone, EVERYONE, even you and me becomes self-serving and looks out for their best interest first.Pro athletes and musicians provide plenty of examples of how relationships change with family members when money enters the equation haha.

Now I see management and associated fees as the tie between the manager and the investor which enable them to take advantage of the market in all kinds of ways.

Filing the deed(s) will allow you to pay the back taxes and in most states will enable you to get repaid -if someone else should ultimately end up with the property (highly unlikely -unless the facts you've presented are wrong or incomplete). 

This was a great place to live across the street from an express bus line and the extra room enabled me to have a roommate multiple times throughout my ownership to save money; when I moved in with my husband I rented the unit out completely for the 2 years prior to selling it.

Selling this property in 2018 enabled me to fund my rental portfolio (see other posts).

It enabled me to have so much cash that in 2013, me and my partner Nate have acquired about 28% of all the apartments for sale during that year.Why did I survive and thrive when others went from flipping houses to flipping burgers?

Keyless Entry - We went with the Schlage WiFi enabled Encode which we purchased from Home Depot for about $245.

Most of my income is from investing as a LP in multifamily syndications, which generate massive depreciation paper losses that the tax code enables my family to offset income from any source.

This took our cash flow down to $300 / month but enabled us to have immediate access to cash on other opportunities.