Enough money to buy healthy meals if you don't like to cook, etc.But the one thing I can't generate any more of is time.In the next post I'll outline how we made the money and how long it took (about 30 years), and the event of fortunate timing and good luck that started it (my grandmother pushing my parents to buy some apartments after the S&L crisis around 1990 - when banks could barely give complexes away and you could do 90% leverage deals).I'm the fortunate son of a grandmother who had a classic value investor's eye (even though she was trained as a nurse) and who started buying single family homes back in the 1950's and renting them out.

@Kevin Cook I guess we can thank my parents for the name spelling.

Asking someone if they know of any run-down properties makes you sound like a code violations officer or looking for somewhere to cook meth.

You might ask them if they did any cooking within a few days of the incident (really you want to know if they used it the day of, but if that's all you ask, they're likely to realize what you're getting and say no.)Whenever possible, I change over to electric - personal preference and they've been a lot more reliable for me.

Before slaving away your whole life to get 100 million when you're too old to enjoy it, I would read the book Lifeonaire. by Steve Cook and Shaun McCloskey.

@Clint Cook  The GOOD:-Guaranteed rent.

Carpet drywall etc can hold lots of bad things especially if anyone cooked meth, but IV users also have high rates of hepatitus, HIV etc, so treat it like toxic waste unless a report tells you otherwise.

The guy loves to cook more than anything and hates that kitchen with a passion.

The tenant dragged a Weber charcoal grill into the LIVING ROOM and decided to cook "out"...

We all know Cook county is corrupt but I never knew how corrupt until I talked to a guy who's worked real estate deals in the US, South America and Europe and said the most corrupt government in the 3 continents he's ever had to deal with was Cook County, Illinois.It's easy to predict the results you buy and it became clear to me that the "oracle" should probably be named the "manipulator".Tim