IN this case I was 95% certain she would leave, which she did.

If someone can shine a light on what really works right now in today's market, I would really appreciate it guys.

That's a good thing leaving the 100k open for future advances.

We live in a big city and I'm not going to drive a beater that might leave me on the side of the road.

Been reading the books and dragging my feet for years while I established my professional career (love it, not looking to leave, just supplement).So I live in a nice college town where occupancy rates are high and the leases run 12 mos. and I'm ready to get into the game.

Have you thought about accepting the $750, then asking her to just leave by Friday, in exchange for keeping the $350 and not being evicted?

1) You get the cash flow now instead of having to wait til retirement - at which time you'll have to pay taxes on it when you pull it out.2) You can leverage that money to buy more properties.3) Real estate income is pretty much tax free anyway so what do you really gain by leaving it in a tax free vehicle that is only temporarily tax free - you'll pay when you end up pulling that real estate out of the 401k. example with some VERY loose guestimates on the numbers:100k buys you one house (worth about 130k) free and clear in your 401k.

There's a saying in my farms by the good estate attorneys and it goes something like this: "If you want to **** over your kids, be sure to leave a will."

Or one student leaves and the others are on the hook and may not be able to afford to pay.

I have had to email/phone/leave voicemails repeatedly to get traction on deals that i have been interested in.There have been numerous occasions when even a courtesy response was not provided to let me know that another member was already working on a house or the house was already under contract(and no, the Quest tool still indicated that the house was available for members).It seems like the organization does not feel the need to send even a courtesy response if a property is no longer available for LS members .