The dividend rate of most whole life companies is well in excess of the Guaranteed Rate.

On the other hand if it is credit card debt or debt from excess spending, then buying a rental is the last thing you should be doing. 

Clays shrink and swell depending on their moisture content/plasticity and you don't want your foundations to do the same.

If your NH property does well in the summer, maybe keep it and put all your excess capital into 1 property in a strong winter market because those markets are generally pricier. 

Man, if only people could argue against the excessive conservatism of Dave Ramsay without resorting to quoting Robert Kiyosaki, a writer of absolute FICTION!

Have water, fire, moisture, temperature, motion sensors, voice interaction with customers, throughout the systems.  

I guess I should have kept this excess cash in CDs earning 2.2% to await a better deal, sponsors earning ‘yummy’ fees are clearly evil for putting mutually beneficial outcomes.

I have stated that when you have gross rents of $400-$700 monthly, it will most likely average out to be in the ballpark of 50%, but as rents increase to amounts above $1000 per month, the ratio or percentage decreases due to a variety of factors (which will not be explained here).The purpose of this post is to get some viable data from many individuals who have rental units with monthly rental rates in excess of $1,000 (per door) and have at least 3 years of financials.

Any rust or moisture on the metal will be like a cancer and it will continue to rust between metal and patch, and eventually the patch will fall off.

It's pretty common for REOs to smell like they have a mold problem when in actuality they don't -- once you get the HVAC running with a decent filter, the smell will go away.That said, if there is a mold problem, the first course of action is going to be to determine what the source of moisture is, and get it remediated.