I have no employees to baby sit, no perishable inventory to move, no franchise fees to pay, and no store to maintain.

But even if you are skilled and pull permits, doing it yourself LIMITS your profits.Turn, baby, turn.In and out and on to the next one. 

There's a blog/site called retireearlylifestyle.com that I highly recommend if you want to see how wisdom, frugality, and the willingness to take a different approach to early retirement has been going on for 20+ years, before concepts like FIRE were main stream.I'm a Dave Ramsey fan and we recently became Baby Step 6a Debt Free...all loans and personal residence paid off, but we still have rental loans. 

It's hard because I am doing a lot of the work as well (playing off our different strengths) but I still have my W2 job and now we are expecting a baby (more expenses!).

His name has often come up with other "gurus," but I found his schtick ("....Yeah, baby!")

I paid her $4,500  for it just this morning I have a tenant moving in on the first, paying me $575 per month on this baby.

She doesn't share the entrepreneur mindset, I got her to agree to the roomate so baby steps to be able to show her that money can work for us.

If you hire a teenager to mow the lawn or baby sit, you need to file paperwork with the IRS and withhold taxes.

Possum women tend to collect children from every deadbeat boyfriend they date with each addition hanging on to them like little possum babies hanging on to momma  possum. 

I also am a huge fan of Dave Ramsey and am working the same baby steps, though I do treat my real estate investing different (very conservative, but I am okay with debt as long as it's supported by a fixed rate loan.)