I would caution you about taking the whole nest egg and trying to flip as we are pretty late in the cycle.

Long amortization periods on fixed loan products combined with compound interest on investments is probably your best bet at maintaining an inflation resistant nest egg.

My landlord would like me to connect the thermostat to my WiFi so that he has access through the nest app to the thermostat. 

I saw the new Hoarders on Netflix, nothing but 2001 Mountain Dew and old shoeboxes with rat nests.

I use rubbermade still as I just can’t justify $200 for packout style locking / nesting ones with a built in dolly when $4 x 3 and my already in the corner dolly will do the same.

I want to build my cashflow now, my nest egg is not close to where it needs to be and to be frank I am concerned with our economy overall. 

If you purchased four homes with the $400K nest egg then your cash flow is $400 a month. 

You then could have a blend of these where you could make two separate LLC's in each state, but then also nest them under a holding company in another state, such as Nevada or Delaware, for example.

I had this set up both ways, and would never go back to split utilities.If you're worried about elec/gas usage, install a Nest or similar and just course-correct when someone's set it to 64 in August ...

Just keep changing that one cell.This eliminates a computationally intensive and messy nested if-then statement that doesn't scale.