I now have new tenants but instead do doing a 1 year lease with them I negotiated it so it was odd term lease at 1 year 3 month lease so it's up for renewal in the springtime.

I bet your mom knows my parents.

The bum wouldn't go get them so I had a guy drop a bunch off and we helped him they were 8ft long pallets so it didn't take many. we used scrap pieces of lumber and screws to connect the pallets and any odd length cut with a chainsaw it don't have to be pretty its on his side.Sometimes you can find longer pallets and around here usually they are freeIf you look around for them.

I bet if you ran all of his mail through the paper shredder, and claimed that you "never saw it", he would change the address and the problem would fix itself.

Double your net worth is the safest bet that way if they try to sue you for future earnings you will be in a much better position.

It seems to me that Johnson County would be your best bet if you are looking for the benefits of appreciation to go along with good cash flow.

I think part of it comes from people not knowing what renovation work really costs, they see the prices at Home Depot on stuff and think, "oh they repainted the place and a gallon of paint is less than $20 (the cheap paint, not the paint I buy) I bet that cost them $1000 at most to repaint the interior!"

My spread sheet says with a 30yr mortgage I would bet $210 a month and 15 year would be like $110.

He was changing jobs recently, I bet he has gotten busy with that.

Anything you ever want to learn, I bet you can find a lot of good books written by very accomplished people in any field.