Over the last 6 years the word has gotten around about the 82 beds in my 22 STRs, and my business has grown from 1 2-bedroom house to what it is now.Find some sort of target market of renters that you have a niche or inside resource to get tenants. 

I do agree with charging more for pets but honestly have never separated puppies from grown pets. 

The only one I really drive is between DFW and Austin and it just seems most of the cities along that corridor are ripe for grown. 

Or mother AND her grown-up kids?

Yes, there are tons of people that have grown fortunes with well less than 150k.

.- In 15 years, when my kids are grown and out of the house, I'd like to have 5 times as much money as I do today.- In order to have 5 times as much money in 15 years as I do today, I'd need my money to grow at about 12% per year.- Based on that, I would want to have all my money working (invested) at all times and I would want every investment to generate at least 12% returns.- Unfortunately, it's nearly impossible to have all your money invested at all times (you can't always find investments and sometimes there is time between investments), so to be safe, I'd probably target 15% returns on my investments.- If I own a rental that's generating $100/month, that's $1200/year

I have a fairly sizable investment there... when I say duplex four plex I am using a West coast duplex or four flex... or specifically here in Portlandia.. were we do not have SFR's generally as rentals.. they exisit but not nearly to the extent they do in other markets.. prior to the crash less than 6% of standing SFR's in the entire 2 mil Portland metro market were rentals.. that number has grown to about 10%...

Try Ronald MinellaMyslicki Real EstateRon has grown up in the area all his life and has experience working with investors.

I don't use the dishwasher, having grown up washing everything by hand.

In addition, as our population has grown, both from within and as a result of immigration, we have more people dependent upon it., Add to this our idiocy of loaning money to foreign countries that we will never see again, funding the UN to assist in removing our Constitutional Rights and on and on and after a while, you have more outgo than income.