I recently finished my basement remodel (the last piece to the entire remodel of the house) and plan to turn this house into my first rental and buy a new smaller house ($250k - $300k) as my primary in the Golden/Lakewood/Arvada area in the next couple months.  

But I have a case of golden handcuffs.Do what you love because desk jobs aren't exactly as glorious as they look.

Was that the new one I read about that wanted to start in Golden Valley, or something in Edina?

Just follow the steps in that book and you'll be golden. 

It is all time consuming and difficult to get past BUT here are some suggestions on how to get past the daily grind until you get to that golden world of passive income.  

If they are month to month, you are golden - you simply give them their notice that you are not renewing their terms - you won't have to give them a reason. 

You might find it to be a lot more work than you want to put in.You could always fix and flip cheap properties right here in the golden state for the time being, make money from that for a while and put a nice down payment into an apartment house somewhere down the line either in state or out of state.  

Sometimes you have to  get rid of the dogs to acquire the golden goose eggs...

I have recently noticed a bunch of new mansions being built in queens ny near my grandmothers place and i thought it was weird but it put 2+2 together and it made perfect sense Scarsdale and Manhasset are now so overpopulated and the property taxes are so high it makes sense for the upper class to just live in the city than the suburbs and save 40k$ a year in property taxes on there 6million dollar mansion and send there kids to private school bc after all there kids will graduate and move on hopefully and taxes are forever :(  With that in mind if your in the really hot trendy central area with great property taxes than yea you'll probably be golden in 2 years but if the area is really hot but not so central with higher taxes maybe not so goldenso all in all i think take all the advice here with a grain of salt bc it may be the smarter thing to live there if you know you want to live in that area anyways and can afford to do so but at the same time you don't want to commit yourself to something that may close the door to other opportunities further down the line...good luck and be sure to let us know how everything turns out...

No, if the note is performing then you're golden.