However, I lived in Tampa for five years and know that Florida is a different animal altogether. 

The problem is going to be comparing the value of it compared to outsourcing it altogether.

Do yourself a big favor - - drop the idea altogether. 

Hello Everyone, my name is Paul and I am new to this site and to real estate investing altogether.

It also is helpful to have a California LLC in case you ever sell that property and move into another state so that you do not need to form a new LLC altogether with new operating agreement, just re-register in the new state as a new foreign LLC.

If you plan to do consulting on an ongoing basis, but 5 years into the future something changes and you take a full time time and stop the consulting altogether, you could terminate the plan and transfer assets to a retirement account type that works for your situation at that time.I hope this helps give you an idea of what circumstances the plan may work better for than others as far as your self-employment activity is concerned.

I just think the issue isn't that she doesn't want to be involved in it or scared of real estate but that she is terrified you are jumping in too deep and getting you both into something you may not be able to recover from if problems arise, and it's just easier for her to try to avoid it altogether.

With all the mail getting lost in delivery now - perhaps it would be a better idea to bypass them altogether.

do you need to replace the drywall altogether?

But hey, if you do happen to lose faith in managing then look into professional property management but don't ever let the weirdos make you lose faith in REI altogether.