I hope you all success in 2019 and you get to enjoy the fruits of your labor!

Look at the comps and enjoy.

We took 1 1/2 yrs of weekends and using all our vacation time and hiring a local handyman as well as a few contractors and were able to turn it into a really nice place for us to retire in 5-10 years.

Enjoy ;-)

She can at least still enjoy the benefits and promote it to others without that crippling debt

My dream is to own a ski home in the mountains of Vermont and have a family to take there for vacation for a week every couple months while I'm in my late 30s and 40s. 

The place sounds perfect for vacation rental.

I enjoyed reading how you presented the different levels of real estate accounting and, most importantly, the risk associated with each.

It's definitely something I'm going to consider for my next move.Really appreciate that link, I'm enjoying the article.

But when he said he is gonna vacate the home he had defaults on rent. we have 2 months rent as security deposit , we told them we could deduct that amount on rent only if the house is returned in good condition... when we inspected, the house was in very pathetic state...they didn't inform us about the dog and it wasn't on the lease either but we found that they had a dog and 2 cats...The dog caused much damage to 2 of the doors.