They'll survive and can heat water up in a pot on the stove,, showers well ya that's the breaks.if you want you can give a concession for the down time, it's just a part of ownership and some things are just not expected,, at least it's not 50 below and your worrying about frozen pipes,,If they ask say yes if they don't ,, don't worry..Important is you responded quickly and service is being completed.

They were all jobless losers who smoked pot and listened to music.

Slowly but surely, "hippies and pot heads" were able to come out of the closet.

Enough money to buy healthy meals if you don't like to cook, etc.But the one thing I can't generate any more of is time.In the next post I'll outline how we made the money and how long it took (about 30 years), and the event of fortunate timing and good luck that started it (my grandmother pushing my parents to buy some apartments after the S&L crisis around 1990 - when banks could barely give complexes away and you could do 90% leverage deals).I'm the fortunate son of a grandmother who had a classic value investor's eye (even though she was trained as a nurse) and who started buying single family homes back in the 1950's and renting them out.

@Kevin Cook I guess we can thank my parents for the name spelling.

Asking someone if they know of any run-down properties makes you sound like a code violations officer or looking for somewhere to cook meth.

You might ask them if they did any cooking within a few days of the incident (really you want to know if they used it the day of, but if that's all you ask, they're likely to realize what you're getting and say no.)Whenever possible, I change over to electric - personal preference and they've been a lot more reliable for me.

I feel the we, as a community, could benefit from talking about the whys a bit more.That's all I intended to to here...I think it sorta worked :)Ben, I understand you like to start controversial topics and stir the pot, which is great, but I would be a more grateful to a business that has helped provide for my family and freedom to choose your hours.Newbies come to this website to learn from experienced guys.

Wow, what's plan B if things go to pot?

Start working at 16 saving $25k by 18, invest at 18% in real estate, tax liens, whatever, reinvesting the proceeds and in 48 years at 66, have $102.4M, but ad a little more in the pot over the years and can easily get there in half the time.