Note: If you go to the same meeting each month, you can do detail tracking for a month, and can use same detail to estimate expense for rest of the year.( If nothing changed)2) Meals when traveling away from home - 50% is deductible unless the meal is provided to the general public (like Open houses) than it is 100% deductible.3) Expenses for Meeting with investor4) Expenses For Meeting with realtor5)Going to investors meetings.

*I am just starting to put money away as I cleared all of my debts in the last half year.Debt-$0Salary-$75K gross, which is $52.5K NET + an annual bonus of a few thousand with excellent benefits-health insurance premium, phone bill, gas/grocery discounts, and 40% of my meals are covered.Monthly/annual Expenses-Very few expenses right now...Groceries are minimal, gas/car insurance only 7 months of the year, and I live a very simple life.

*I am just starting to put money away as I cleared all of my debts in the last half year.Debt-$0Salary-$75K gross, which is $52.5K NET + an annual bonus of a few thousand with excellent benefits-health insurance premium, phone bill, gas/grocery discounts, and 40% of my meals are covered.Monthly/annual Expenses-Very few expenses right now...Groceries are minimal, gas/car insurance only 7 months of the year, and I live a very simple life.

What my company does is every time we meet with a potential client my sales people track it and then we will donate a meal to feed a veteran with Camp Hope which is a local organization that we partner with here in Houston Texas to help vets handle PTSD

Contractors: $28,388.03  Insurance: $645.65  Meals: $868.39  Job Supplies: $32,604.29  Travel: $70.00  Utilities:​ $381.05  Total cost of renovation: $62,957.41 Total Money spent on project: $148,957  Estimated House Value: ​$180K  Upside Equity: ​$31,043 Rent Income:  ● Main house: $1,400   ● ‘Mother in law’ unit: $900   ● Shed rent: $100   ● Total per month: $2,400  ● Total per year: $28,800 Expenses: ● Property tax: $2,450  ● Insurance: $1,200  ● Repaires: $2,400  ● Management Fee: 8%

I am guessing it might be a better deal to buy a bunker, store a few years worth of water and RTE meals in there than to keep buying gold for that day to come.  

I did take the HVAC guy to lunch and paid for his meal that day just to feel him out.  

Cool beans.What would happen if you took that same $6,000 over the next 6 months and used it to take people out to a $25/person kind of restaurant (in my market that would be pretty great, not the Ritz) and have lunches with people in your market, possibly even past clients, and build relationships with them by adding value to their lives and getting to know them deeper over a tasty meal?   

I've found that I enjoy a meal way better when we pick out another table to bless with a free meal from a stranger they'll never meet.  

@Cameron Don Meals Congrats on the first property.