In other news, we are getting married in less than a month, honeymoon the whole next week, then back at saving and looking for rental #3!

I love Hawaii I'll be there in August for my honeymoon and can't wait!

The reason I am filing is because of hospital bills my wife got on our honeymoon.

We decided to go with a smaller 'honeymoon' style cabin.

Coupled with that is the honeymoon and some debt from a HELOC I took out in order to pay for our home. 

If you are not married, here is a good case for marriage if I ever made one, Christine: each of you can get ten conforming loans.Of course, marry wisely- the spouse should have enough income and good credit to qualify for a conforming loan, good looks and dishwashing skills aside.Also, since this would be a business tactic, let us know if the IRS would allow you to write off the wedding and the honeymoon as a business expense...

Lots of people are happy on the honeymoon stage of a relationship.

I like real estate for the opportunity that it provides.Some of my investor buyers for my listings have multiple stock accounts they pull from to purchase real estate.Personally I like real estate because it is a tangible asset.I don't like the idea of paper to be worth 100 one day and 10 cents the next.At least with a property barring and act of God or some other strange occurrance I will have a tangible asset to sell.I know some will say but if you bought at the height of the market you would be upside down on that tangible asset.I didn't buy anything back then.I saw many people laughing and making money refinancing and to be honest I did feel like maybe I was missing out.I waited on now I am so glad that I did because many of those same people laughing with joy are crying in pain.Stocks just like real estate is something that if you just dabble in it you can lose everything.The sexy part of stocks just like real estate is to make money quick but many more lose than win.The losers aren't talked about much but the few winners are pumped up to sell marketing and courses to extract money from the herds.For my honeymoon years ago we went to Tennessee.While there my wife had an adverse reaction I think to the make up used at the wedding (she has sensitive skin).So we went to a local doc.This guy was really nice but old in his late 80's.We started chatting up and he said it was just a reaction to something and gave her a shot.I talked about real estate.That's when he said him and his wife had put all of their retirement in Enron stock and had it for awhile then BOOM the bottom fell out and they lost everything.He had to come out of retirement and open a practice again in his late 80's to make ends meet.That scared the hell out of me and made me stay away from stocks.I might eventually buy a small amount for a long term hold but I am not into risk with stock market.I have seen too many people see big dollar signs with their eyes and lose their shirts.

We supplied our tenants with a mini fridge. they were only in the apartment for two days with the mini fridge before they left on their honeymoon for one week. the repairman came today, which is the eighth day, and told me it's outside of his scope and he will have to send another repairman over, but they have been unusually busy lately.

The honeymoon stage of investing is real.