We also have a 4 plex with 4 6 yr heaters with high iron water that has never needed service.(15 yrs) These have high Iron water. 

^^^ Ironically enough, and STUPID of me . . . there is NO EARNEST money.  

@Igor Messano excellent point about covering depreciation. i do have a CPA...will run that one up the flag pole as i continue to iron out my strategies. 

Broken doors, head and shoulder shaped dents/holes in walls, cigarette burns on counters, iron shapes melted into the carpet, cracked toilets, etc. it had to have been one hell of a party.

This gives me time to get the place leased up and iron out the kinks to determine ballpark what steady-state NOI is.   

ironically enough oakland having issues with fires in homeless camps... even city sponsored one.

So would this other book called The Millionaire Next Door.OK, with that in mind to help get you on the road to the kind of iron financial discipline and focus on finances you need to do better at getting the brutal debt boot off your neck, looking at your salary and your wife's eventual willingness to earn more in her own work, you're not in THAT bad shape, really.

Ironically, I will be placing my first contract on a handwritten letter I sent out rather than from my 5000 letters.

It's ironic that their approach is having the opposite effect, at least on one employee (me), because I value keeping work and my personal life separate. 

Ironically I'm working with someone from Sacremento on a ltr-airbnb-live in triplex.