A roof repair or some other big ticket item could come up and it could take 6+ weeks to get financing for a $7,000 repair.

You buy a ticket for a cruise.

I ask my friend Steve (the British sports car collector guy on my RTPG video) to sell the truck because it sat on the street and collected one too many parking tickets on Fridays.

Now, this is including paying a property management fee to ourselves, but even without that it would be break even.We put in a new HVAC this past winter and flooring in 2014, but otherwise have done very little and the place will need some big ticket items soon like roof, kitchen and bathroom.I should say we bought this as a primary we never ran the numbers for using it as a rental - we just wanted to get started in REI so we turned it into a rental when we bought our next property. 

Those are big ticket items like furnaces and roofs.

It will go on sale for non-Pro members on Monday, make sure to snag a ticket cause they are limited! 

I'm a big DIY advocate but if you have big ticket items I'd look to hire it out.

Some of the big ticket items were that there was structural issues (a wall and sill plate had rotted due to water damage so a section of the house needed to be jacked and rebuilt.  

Usually as a guest of a friend who had an extra ticket. 

I did own season tickets to the OKC Thunder a year or so ago.