One benefit of going that route is you can see your "business/investment properties" along with other retirement accounts, checking accounts, etc.  

Than we want to retire early at 42 and 44 living of the investments and my husbands pension from active duty.

About a year in, my boss asked me if I was interested in retiring in 10 year.  

One was retired.  

He said he is a retired engineer from TI and I was thinking of using him for my next project.

I bought my 1st house in 1988,I am looking to purchase more rental income properties to supplement my income when I can retire in 5 years.

Crunching the numbers I can realize strong positive cash flow and a 16% ROI.I am retired Army and have great success keeping my properties in this area rented to both military and civilians.

This is Rick in Central Florida, retired here from the Washington DC area not too long ago.

There are other ideas in that we have asset level data and portfolio level data and each level has inputs and outputs which can be meaningful however, portfolio dynamic discussions attached to this already long thread likely have you retiring before you finished reading.

Maybe the current past retirement age owner just didn';t want to fool with the financial calculator math to figure out if it made sense.I do know that one park had master and sub meters and there was a 30% difference in water used at the master vs out at the sub meters.