You don't say anything about a job loss, medical problems, or something else.

Take your emergency phone numbers with you, and have your friend call you with questions when he is uncertain what to do.Here's the professional help part: find another local landlord who wants to swap managing with you for vacation times.

It's my understanding that "assisted living" is in different categories, depending on the degree of assistance and care required. for medically assistedpersons, I know some are the waiting room to heaven and not classified as nursing homes, and then there are those for limited assistance, like someone restricted to a wheel chair and who has say mental issues who can not really be on their own.A friend of mine owns several assisted living facilities and nursing homes.

If we take on real estate investing, we know there will be vacancies, maintenance issues, emergency repairs, etc.

Free education, medical, insurance etc is just plain unsustainable in any society.

Jimmy, in most emerging markets, utilities are growth companies, not high-dividend and slow-growing companies.

We will be moving to the west coast from North Dakota in a year and a half for her to go to medical school.I want to invest in at least one property before we move in 18 months but I don't know which is the correct way to go about it.

We will be moving to the west coast from North Dakota in a year and a half for her to go to medical school.

I would think a couple grand would suffice for emergencies.

In Baltimore there is a major push to get the homeless into housing becasue they figured out it was cheaper to pay for their housing then to pay for medical and other related issues when they were on the street.