For most it’s a colossal waste of time and energy.

It took up most of his time and energy.  

Take the time, energy and resources you are allocating towards this and refocus it on the underlying real estate.

I think this gets missed sometimes, or people are surprised that they are taking a lot of risk AND energy/time to get returns generally available already with much lower of the two

Does anyone out there that has rental property in Washington state mind giving me a sample of their bullet proof lease agreement?

I don't know what drawings were generated by the designer, better to bite bullet and have a local licensed architect do it the right way.

Low energy spamming tbh 

Our slow season is months with some of the best weather IMO and people come here to escape bad weather further North.Heated pools are great, but have you ever looked at the extra cost of energy and maintenance?

GFC was due to naive/lazy nurses/teachers/cops/fire-fighters and anyone else with a pension, not deploying any Due Diligence and just letting their greedy pension managers get billions in fees to invest in crap MBS and synthetic CDOs, all else by banking and ratings agencies and real estate investors just followed like trigger/hammer/powder/bullet down the pipe.

Depending on your level of income from those investments, you could be better off biting the bullet and accepting the ordinary income classification while exploring SE limiting strategies like forming an S-Corp.