I have taken advantage of lots of holiday sales and ordered most of the materials for at least 50% off.The icing on the cake is that we leave for Ireland the day after closing!

When I'm not working at my day job I'm reading, writing, listening to podcasts, biking, hiking/camping, following hockey (go Stars!)

I've been working as a network engineer and programmer even before the (public) Internet existed; technology is a young person's game, and it's about time I focused on "retiring" into a more profitable vocation.My career has been focused on delivering exceptional customer service, and my plan is to apply this same focus to my newfound interest in real estate investing.From what I've reviewed, my interest lies in both wholesaling and flipping residential homes at this point.I welcome and appreciate any and all input; working with a mentor would be icing on the cake!

It gives you some nice "icing on the cake" if you do self-manage, but let's you plan to pass management off to someone else if that need arises..  

This has provided me with a good foot in the door and eases breaking the ice when asking for money when you know someone in common.In the short term there are plenty of credit cards out there with 0% interest for introductory periods.  

But guess what, just like everything else in life, once you have enough momentum, once you reach that critical tipping point, you are going to see the hockey style growth.  

Operating expenses also include: advertising, maintenance, vacancy allowance, legal fees, utilties paid by the owner (during vacancies, etc), common area maintenance, lawn care, snow and ice removal, lawsuits, office expenses, capital expenses (although not technically an operating expense), entity maintenance, damage done by tenants (above the deposit), evictions, etc, etc, etc.

Salt for ice.

The Seller does't care, since most of the time, the sale price has a hefty margin in it above acquisition, rehab and holding that any rental payments are simply icing on a triple chocolate fudge cake with ice cream.Clearly, this pool has much of the same characteristics.

Appreciation is great, but it can't reliably be predicted so we consider it 'the icing on the cake'.