My lease makes it clear "the check's in the mail" doesn't count.

Again on this topic, I emplore you to look back in history and show me a time when the US actually paid down its national debts, I count 7 and each time is followed by a recession and/or depression.You memtion the US in comparison to Greece.

Any scheme, plan, Pre-nup, contract or agreement you can come up with has already been defeated by a lawyer.

Illiquid assets like real estate (or even insurance) at least help to insulate the average investor against this self-defeating behavior.There are long-term trends in asset classes that make them relatively cheap or expensive at any given time, in a historical context.

Needing the owners name defeats any purpose to act like the property manager (if you are the owner), since it will be clear that you are the owner.

You can always count on cigarettes and booze to be in high demand.

After 30K, we’d need to cash out somehow for more downpayments...but wouldn’t that count as borrowing a downpayment, which I thought you couldn’t do?

I would be careful on counting on rental income.

Ahem Let me step onto my soap box . . .You MUST count the cost of management.

We can always count on BP!