Then my firm cuts me my share in a commission check that I may get 4 days after that. 

On a 2M property you should be able to write off roughly 300-400k, so that would cut your real estate income down for years, but not your W2, because I don't think you would be able to claim RE professional status. 750 hrs and min 50% of your time.

We built it out of necessity and started same way as everyone, cut our teeth on bad decisions.

I'm not sure what type of property you have, but I find having long-term tenants cuts down on the amount of repairs and definitely will reduce the number of turnovers needed in a given time period.

Tenant may have forgotten to cut it before a vacation. 

I am summarizing all of this and may be missing details.Extreme cost cutting mode is what Jorge opened up with.

As Plano is a pretty nice clean cut buttoned up type of community they don't seem to have a lot of tolerance even for just a few bad apples.Dallas is considering a ban. 

SSI for but very high earners is not going to really cut it for most folks. 

You cut and paste your realtor emails into a post here.These are so obvious.

Don't know about anyone else, but I feel like my personal daily battle is between doing what is urgent and fuels my raging undiagnosed ADHD, or what is actually important.I've done a ton of work on this over the past almost 4 years, and still am nowhere that I think I need to be, but I'm at least getting to a level of awareness I don't think I ever had before and that is a win in my book.