For a contractor to expand they need to accept more risk, become more entrepreneurial, take ownership in producing a product, that turns the blue collar white on the business side.

I read an interview one time where Nicole said she was scouted by the shows producers because they were looking for a blonde agent for their reality tv show.Thats right - the number one factor in contacting her was because of the color of her hair.Definitely model your entire business plan after this ;)

I did purchase a home back in 2005, but that home is long gone and I never did end up investing in income producing properties after that.  

Revenue producing activities!

@Jose Diaz  surely your monthly expense could easily be covered by the income you could produce from just one deal. 

I have long been a proponent of doing thorough pro forma analyses of income-producing investments.

The next tenant would clog the toilet and then demand that I be on the hook to repair the plumbing because of my failure to provide housing within close proximity to healthy food.Have you ever had something similar happen with your manager(s)?

Construction disbursements are made based on lien waivers produced by labor and material releases showing both have been paid.

My goals are to build a supplemental retirement income for my husband and I (we are a little bit behind) and to build an income producing career for myself so that my husband can pursue an alternative career and leave his $140000 yr job without much of a change in living standards.

(I believe once son's maxed out insurance he'd be eligible for medicaid & section 8 to pay rent on unit) Then use IRA to purchase income producing property, to further help?