"Don't put all your eggs in one basket" Why is this analogy important? 

I don’t know about everyone else here, but I am sure glad I put each of my kids through swim lessons rather than give them a “how to swim website” before I took them to the beach and said have fun.From all of the advice given here, the only ones that I would give much credit to would be @Mary Mitchell and @Jay Hinrichs because each of them have fruit on the tree.  

We  then moved over to the other side of the duplex and sealed a cracked bathtub and then replaced all the plumbing under the kitchen sink including the sink drain baskets.

Keurig coffee machine, gourmet teas, CableTV with lots of good channels, Roku with Netflix, welcome baskets with chocolates/peanuts/mints/etc.

First objective is to pick the low hanging fruit which is the 25 unit assuming Mom is 100% all in. get it under control by self managing - careful here as this could be a real time hog and may prevent you from further purchases due to time restraints.

Airbnb is just flakey about how you show up in their rankings or at all.Get on Vrbo so that all your eggs aren't in the Airbnb basket.

I hope I will never have to use any of these extreme methods but if so, I will be able to help myself, my family, and my neighbors.James-I'm sure you'll be fine not preparing for any disaster of any sort.Brian – I live in an area where there are animals grown to eat, as well as chickens that lay eggs and many gardens as well as fruit trees.

My current 9-5 is in manufacturing and I also do various foreclosure inspections part-time but I have been working too long in both fields, not seeing any fruits of my labor I have decided to take on the title of Rookie Wholesaler.

But if you are really doing business in the real world, all sellers aren't in that basket.

It gives go-juice to those of us in the trenches, wondering how to get to the holy grail of the money tree that delivers fruit. . . on a monthly basis!