There are much straighter and lighter trees that grow faster available for dimensional lumber: firs, spruces, and various other pine species.The rafters are not the biggest issue here -- a sturdy rafter structure is to be expected in a pre-truss structure, where simple solid rafters in line hold up the roof, not a complicated structure of thinner sticks taking up lots of floor space in the attic.You need to look at the attic floor from below carefully.

I believe this was never the intent of Joshua.The crazy thing is that Cash Flow is live blood and pocket change at the same time.

Dude.Don't do the yellow letters written in goats blood !

Believe me after the 1st two I was ready to keep acquiring- but we had to put a lot of blood, sweat, tears and cash in to repositioning them and we need some recovery time!

One of the former tenants left some kind of thick paint like stuff (not poop or blood) in the master bedroom toilet and went on vacation at the end of the semester.

Blood & brain matter was still on the bed & mattress....Drug addiction will put people in crazy situations.

It has gone OKAY but there have been a few snags leading to thinner expected profits.

Do you have actual blood in your veins?

There's specific knowledge that can only come with ownership - buying and selling as a broker doesn't make up for the blood, sweat, tears, triumphs, and lessons learned of ownership specific to a jurisdiction. 

Cash flow is the life blood of real estate, and as a wise man once said, "You can't eat equity."