@Kyle Fitch ok, I will touch on (IMO) the top 4. 1st: When we talk about "investing" the vast majority of time were looking at a total time-line of decades, several or many decades, right, before were mulch.

Also totally willing to go in by myself on deals.

I owner occupy the home, renting a room to a friend at $650/mo, and the lower unit rents for $1850/mo - total rental income of $2500/mo.

This is a summarized version of events, but stray I rescued off the street gave birth to 7 puppies, bringing my total to 13.

My recommendation, depending on income, is to get 2-8 total properties per city and really allocate 40-60% of your intended investment before moving to the next city.

If you oversimplify it and take your total cost to close the deal / monthly savings = # of months to Break Even.

Whenever rates fall going to cash out refi again my Roger’s park 4 now getting close to 500k total profit off that one deal now. 

If I had known the numbers they quoted me were total garbage, I could have sold my houses much earlier and saved about $80K in losses.

Also, your total returns go down without any leverage because you lose the multiplier effect of appreciation.Now, to answer your question.

Spend more than half of your total working hours in an RE business in which you materially participate.2.