Other parts of the country my have a different taste.

But people with your taste are no doubt responsible for the boom in "wooden plank" tiles, which I personally think look ridiculous.

The crash in 2007/2008 pretty much wiped out the notion that real estate was guaranteed to appreciate, and it has left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths.

It left a bad taste in a lot of peoples mouths in the hotel and vacation ownership businesses.  

This is just a minor vent session but I got my first taste of real world landlord work this past weekend.

You and I can see (and eventually taste) that meat. 

However, where I do have a bad taste in my mouth is that, for all their good educational stuff, 1) a lot of the coaches that I saw in Boston were not able to answer basic real estate questions because they were trained coaches rather than actual investors (some, not all); and 2) Than's Fortune Builders (FB) still has a crew of henchmen that super-aggressively wanted my friend and I to max out our credit cards/loan from our 401k to pay for their Mastery program.

Rent out my current place (3/2 1700 SFH) and get a taste of being a landlord, while also buying a place that could potentially be my second rental after I've lived there long enough.Thanks for any thoughts,-Dustin

That might be too aggressive for you and if you guys plan to both work until retirement and have nice tastes get the kitchen now.

This is for delivery/setup/removal and 3 months use, with a small fee per month after ($250 I think, thank goodness we have never had to use it yet...).IF I had any taste, and if we did more volume, I might choose to buy the furniture and move from house to house, but since neither is true I think that my stager's job is safe!