She attempted to use the voucher on the unit, without any other modifications to the rental agreement or total rent paid and, allegedly, after some very unkind words about her worth as an individual receiving a subsidy from the gov't, was told no.

I am considering either borrowing against the equity to purchase a second property, or attempting to aggressively pay down the mortgage on this house, become debt free, and allow that process to compound my results.

What I got out of it mostly is that I am going to attempt the Debt Snowball.

I have reached out to a broker via loopnet as an attempt to take initiative to ask for deals as they may come up, but from the looks of it it seems like my choices will be mostly between SFH vs duplex and MAYBE a triplex.I can find many other multifamily units outside of my living radius where I will be looking into after my first purchase to live within a property.

The worst for me was my continuous attempts to improve the property were met with tenants wrecking my improvements.

I personally have a bit of a perverse scenes of enjoyment when dealing with inherited tenants that begin by trying to train me as their landlord.As a landlord you must understand this tenant is playing games, attempting to train you, and the best defence is to jump in and play hard ball.

On the weekends, I let my body recharge and sleep until it wakes itself up. 

After some quick math and one failed attempt to buy a condo I have bought 6 rentals in 18 months. 

Shiller was making the comparison by saying that shorting the stock market helps prevent bubbles from forming and that the use of CDO's in 2003-2006 was an attempt to mirror that action for the housing market in order to hold down the bubble, but it was a fail. 

As discussed on many previous podcasts, posts most recently in the latest podcast and as general conversation, the discussion of private financing vs traditional financing.I have spend the better part of this year, thus far, speaking to lenders, daily, on the phone via email, smoke signal; basically, whatever means I could get, in a vigorous attempt to obtain financing.If it isn't one thing its another with these guys.