Cooking a meal doesn't take that much time typically as long as you're not baking cakes for dessert.

Anything else I accomplish will be icing on the cake.

The market makes it a challenge to have your cake and eat it too, hahh.

in this market to expect all your money back and to be positive 200 a month is a pretty tall order.people get 200 a month when they put 20 to 30% cash equity into the homes.. hard to have your cake and eat it to.. or you need to TAKE the risk of buying paper tigers..

The fact it doubled in value, and I'm getting $$$rent is icing on the cake, but feeling like you're doing something good-- that brings me happiness.

Of course I would like to have my cake and eat it too, but that seems unlikely with my current capital.The reason I choose Nashville, and Austin is because both offer a good environment for investors from my research.

You can not have your cake and eat it too if you want to maximise your investment.

@Jonathan Wheeler as far as the permit go, in this case there were two.Demo PermitAddition/Constructionthese two were separate, the second one was a little miss leading because we didn't add any addition but because it was a complete tear out we need a permit.The Demo permit was easy because it was mostly just the roof that was coming down, the whole inside was completely damaged so everything was gutted.The inspections weren't a problem at all, since the existing slab was there the only thing that got inspected where:FramingRoofingHVAC, Electrical & PlumbingInsulationDrywalland then off to the finish line to get Final Inspection.Oh, the only issue was the Water Heater Straps that we forgot to install, so got us a ding.But the rest was Cake.

A Piece of Cake in Detroit. 

Yes, over 2yrs, because these fruit-cakes keep coming on here saying the market is just about to crash from any little anything they feel month to month.