You're retired as soon as your passive income meets or exceeds your ongoing expenses.

Looking forward to potentially meeting some of you!

Since you already have a deal in mind, I would recommend you attend the Deal or No deal meeting this month put on by the real estate investors group, CARREIA.

It's nice to meet you on BP Wendy.BP is a good real estate resource.

@Henry HallmanNice to meet you and welcome to BP.

unless you are very confident with the contractors work and they know exactly what you want, I would highly suggest you wait until you get back.The reason I say this is because a contractor more than likely will not meet your expectations of what you want.

Also does anyone have contacts for tampa REIA meetings? 

This particular article had written requests from 18 state associations to reprint in their own newsletters at the time it appeared, so they must have felt it had value for their members.It is too bad you were not at the recent Annual Meeting in Virginia Beach of the Virginia Manufactured and Modular Housing Association where I was the featured speaker.

I am proficient in excel but not enough to build and maintain something that would meet our needs. 

When and where is the next meeting for The Woodlands, TX area.