They kept coming, and yesterday service was terminated, leaving us and our tenants without water.

You have to take a look at yourself, know who you are, what your goals are, how you want your business to grow and succeed, and what lasting impression you want to leave and how you want to impact the communities you serve.

The idea of 5 bucks here and 10 bucks there and inching their way to financial freedom the way many of our parents and grandparents strived to do it is too much to undertake, so it leaves them on the sidelines. 

It would be great if it could turn into a business that I will be able to run and leave my current daytime office job (target is within 10 years).

However, I would really like it if a lender could use my brokerage account as my “skin-in-the-game”, vs putting 10-30% down on the deal in cash.

Currently any proceeds from the tax-exempt funds in my TSP are tax-exempt forever, but when you do a withdrawal it's withdrawn proportionally also, so no way to leave the tax-exempt money in the account and only pull out the deferred and Roth money. 3.

If you piss off good tenants, they're going to leave, causing vacancy, turnover, and the risk that the next tenants aren't going to be so great.  

. - I wanted to be able to pre-screen some of the "tire-Kickers" and create a bit of a funnel for the most motivated sellers who would obviously listen to the message and decide to leave their info. - Even though it goes straight to voicemail, Godaddy still captures the number that calls and I can further market to them if they dont leave a voicemail.

I've been at this game for a while now, and I'm looking to start to build my portfolio as well as leave less money on the table by doing some fix & flip deals myself.Anyway, that's about it.

You can leave the mortgage as is, but he'll be on the hook if you don't pay, and he no longer has any interest in the property.