My mind is racing, what happens if he does not want me to go inside and bother the tenant? 

I had a friend who wrote off every expense with his “business” of motorcycle racing until after 5 years he had zero winnings and it became a hobby.

. :( I'm racing in the Nautica Malibu Triathlon.http://www.nauticamalibutri.com/event_schedule.cfmHopefully Google fiber will be in Austin by Sept. though!

@Steve Olafson   Good Friend of mine is the GM of the company that owns that race they make a ton of dough with these race's  if the BP folks understood how much money was in orginaizing these types of races you would see a fleeing from RE  LOL

It may just be excess land for an existing home, again, zoning, anyone want a horse and a barn?

Think: 4th of July weekend, Del Mar horse racing season, etc.

When I was 25 years old I raced along every tight rope cliff edge - taking advantage of the fact that things generally go well, and while holding the view that the future was infinite.  

If you try to find properties first, that's the cart before the horse, you'll spend time looking for and hooking up properties that other investors in your area may have no interest in.

In short, the idea is to use leverage as much as is safely possible to build up a portfolio of "Critical Mass," then start paying down those debts to convert them to cash flows and eventually get out of the rat race.

Horses in Russia - by the thousands - died at the beginning of the 20th century, but they ate hay that was severly contaminated.