Anyone can promise you the moon and the stars, but if you're not careful, you will end up wasting time and losing money.

I would start a water line replcement business make far more money doing that than we would owing rentals :) On a related subject you have the waste lines that were clay etc.

That's a heavy load to carry over time and sure will come with consequences.

Because this is the business we've built together, we enjoy working together, we each have roles that reduce the work load on the group and personally I like that the risk is spread out.

I wouldn't waste your time with that on Zillow.

Wood has a huge variability in strength--between pine varieties, the stress which can cause them to fail varies by more than 2x and you can see 20%+ increase in strength as it ages.Then I have stress concentrations which will yield and then redistribute the load in practice, but not according to the calculations I'm allowed to do. 

We have monthly meetings and loads of classes/webinars on real estate topics. 

@Matthew MorrowI have seen similar situations when the previous owner/seller loads the property with unqualified occupants.

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

Without this foundation any money spent on gurus, courses, books mentorships that teach techniques and methods is WASTED, even if the methodology being taught is valid.