We also plan to do a handful of annual flips to supply a surge in cash flow.Real Estate Accomplishments:Bought a 1700sf 3bd/2ba on 2 acres for $35,000 on a owner finance. 

Mildew causes drama because suddenly every sneeze is being caused by your unit.

Why the sudden change now?

I don't know about a fire, but a major hurricane could bring a whole lot of that nasty stuff on shore with a storm surge and wind blown oily water.

There's not a line, IMHO, that you cross and suddenly become "rich" under the tax code.

They still owe 200 grand, and suddenly they lsoe their job and can't make any more payments.

The reason: horrible stuff can happen to otherwise moral people, all of which can completely trash a heretofore decades-old pristine payment history--accidents, uncooperative health insurance adjusters, sudden unemployment, expensive litigation, divorce with unsatisfactory terms, personal tragedies of all kinds, etc.Consider this: Credit scores, and the credit reports that underlie them, have become a kind of "Human Worth Quotient" rather than simply a flexible credit score.

I'm buying an investment property, but the spouse has suddenly become interested.

Suddenly, there was nothing about the "war on terror" that liberals supported and there was nothing about the war on terror that the conservatives would stand up and say, "that's just not right!"

If house values suddenly drop again, I'd have had enough cashflow growth to still give me a strong return on my original investment.