about managing rentals before you start bleeding cash and ruining your life.

So long as the impervious area of the site does not change, permitting will be much simpler.

I also plan on applying my net rental income towards principal only payments to shorten the life of the loan.

Friends, family, or you might be able to access funds via a HELOC, cash value from a life insurance policy, take a loan out on your car, etc. 

Life is busy, but I plan to add some more cameras at some point.  

if the roof is halfway through its useful life, then not much to do there. 

. - Drainage patterns and erosion around the foundation were consistent with the settling we saw, suggesting the slab foundation had been continuously undermined throughout the 23-year life of the house. - We plan on holding the property as a long-term rental, and the amortized cost of the repairs is marginal.

Maybe it's just me though......But you don't have to have your equity working for you perfectly every second of your life.

Don't make your life more complicated than it has to be.

My argument is simple—real estate, unlike most assets, doesn’t actually lose value over time.