I hate my current job (computer programmer / web designer / small electronics engineer), and I hate working for my insane boss. ;) He enjoys construction (where he is currently working for someone else), and with his GC license we are thinking of possibly doing some fix and flips.I am a little more interested in doing some wholesaling, but at the moment I am open for ideas.

She's a well paid software programmer who left a near 6 figure job to become a full time bird dogger because someone told her she should be a full time investor and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working out.

Programmers, hardware engineers, sales & marketing for a computer company, etc?

(I did it successfully)6am call because there is no hot water, thermostat burned out in the middle of the night.There's other stories I have too and I'm a noob at landlording, I've only had tenants for 3 months.So realize it's like MikeOH says it's not nearly as easy as the gurus say.

Maybe getting a quote for a 90% efficiency unit if you are paying for utilities or get an 80% unit anyway and put a thermostat lockbox over the thermostat and leave it at minimum of whatever the local code requires for heat during the winter for a rental unit.

Which means in the case of a furnace they will move the thermostat and see if it kicks on.

One suggestion would be to move the thermostat to an area the does not get as much heat.  

Her boss has been real cool with her, a computer programmer, and only asks her to come in the office for 1/2 day and put in the rest of the day at home.  

Luckily my wife is a computer programmer and her salary has been able to take care of all of us without going into any long term debt and she still has not touched her savings.  

For me, it was becoming a highly paid professional programmer.