Of course, you can't account for getting a horrible disease in your 40s if you retire in your 30s, but I think the principals behind FIRE is what many people are looking for.Spending within your means, earning supplemental income, maybe not having to work a 9-5 because you earn so much from rentals, etc. 

She wants them topped, which will cost at least $1000, and is claiming her tree guy said they are diseased, so this may not help much anyway. 

Usually, the pre-rental medical screening tests that you put your prospective tenants through would have caught this and any other undesirable diseases they might have. 

Remember the seven D's: death, disability, disinterest, divorce, dishonesty, disease, and dissolution. 

Recently I the doctors discovered that I have an auto Immune disease Ankylosing Spondylitis. 

You knew her illness going in.Also, as the disease progresses, the damage to you house can be bad. 

I think she has a terminal disease but I’m not positive.

Unless they died of some communicable disease, just have it properly cleaned. 

Be sure to get a sanitation of the infected areas as rats carry a plethora of diseases that cause risk to tenants and pets.

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