We looked around and found a a place we love that rents for $1,375 which is more than we've ever spent on rent, but our real estate back home is doing exceptionally well so I figure we should spend a little on quality of life.

I think in many scenarios it is human nature to postpone big ticket items to maximize cash flow and when the property is sold - those big ticket issues are sold as well.So deferred maintenance is something I would look very closely at.Chris

While this is a post/article more about a disappearing way of life than it is about real estate investing, it does give one information on a potential investment opportunity.http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/21/us-farmland-idUSTRE7AK0EA20111121buyafarm.com...really?

If you are living a good life and have all of your bills paid with the 2300 per month, and your life is headache free, you may not wanna rock the boat.

Break your sets down to price per square foot.Websites such as Zillow and Realtytrac are Automated Value Models (AVM) which means they collect this data and calculated it without any human adjustments.

I was pretty shocked when I punched the numbers into a mortgage calculator and realized that we'd just saved more than 80,000 over the life of the loan, and also taken eight years off it.We decided to keep going and continue paying it down.

There will always be a lack of something in your life.

So I’m glad I did some things in my life to change my mindset, so I can get better as figuring out, “what’s in it for me?”

Long term goals are to wholesale and give my family the quality of life they deserve.scott

Wow, nice to bring back to life a 5 year old thread...