It spreads the risk thinner and can increase your return dramatically.

My most recent example is paint thinner that has increased 24.3% at Lowes since I last bought it just 3 months ago!!!

Not sure if it is technique or it is just thinner. 

rental properties w/ gov't-subsidized interest rates is historically unheard of and unprecedented (unless you look back at Feudal Europe and you are of noble blood and trying to build a castle and you helped the King win his last war against France or whatever). 

I Like this thread a lot to (funny) I made Bandit signs saying HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE?

The bedroom had a few larger blood spots n the floor and what was left of the walls.

Wood floors are pine or maple usually and thinner planked T&G.You'll find both in an updated condition, tile sewer lines probably replaced, electrical updates, either can be expensive updates.

Managed to hold onto the property through blood sweat and tears but then ended up selling it after 8 years and not really minding being a renter for a while now :)  Even though I want to own rental properties I'm hesitant to get into an (expensive) property for ourselves as it's just a lot to bite off and risk.

Or literally blood relatives?

I am now thinking 2x per cold season is actually the correct amount, based on my assumption that a person in the Denver-Metro area is likely only needing their furnace from Nov - May (unless they are super-wimpy like I now am, with tropical blood).