- Just curious, does your calculator take into account property management, vacancy (at least 1 unit will probably always be vacant), and healthy maintenance costs?

In fact on of these sites is not ranking at all as it is brand new.It will be interesting to see the results and compare them with my top producing organic #1 ranking site.

I will also link a solid article that explains a healthy progression of asset protection strategy, so feed free to refer to that.Best of luck moving forward!

If you can not save your way to the goal, either scale a business (income not tied to your hours; employees generating income for you) or scale a RE portfolio (tenants are producing the income in exchange for a place to live).What do you do now? 

I partnered with a real estate agent, where the broker required his agents to do this, ring doorbells, he did it for 2 years, for 10 hours/week, and have not produced one deal out of it.

Healthy rental rates and low vacancies are common here.

I flipped $50k to $450k during the 10 years leading up to the crash and lost it all...because I was living in the homes and flipping serially instead of investing all that money into cash flow producing properties all working in parallel.

It is fine running one house slightly negative if you can purchase others that are producing full rent with the mortgage you gained from the first.

I don't think "meth" the drug is a risk to a house, it's the chemicals that are used to produce it.

Of course renovation adds to the cost but you can find good deals that rent fast & produce good cash flow above the $100-$200/month in the 1% markets that aren't renting.