It was like a superpower, I now had money I couldn't spend, money I wouldn't spend.  

It looks like most of it was painted over and/or given a cosmetic "covering".

I'm particularly interested in the life that real estate investing can provide for my family.Outside of real estate, I enjoy hard work, learning new skills that will help me in my journey to success, and of course spending quality time with my beautiful daughters.I am Excited to learn and connect with you all!

You have no total control long term over the appreciation of your real estate, that's more up to the neighborhood/demographics/economy/supply-demand/inflation rate etc.

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Obviously, a rational person isn't going to spend every dollar in the business account and would be pointless to let all cashflow sit in cash at a bank and never make any money personally.If you have any information to share, that would be appreciated.

As you over perform for your investment partners, the well will get deeper and wider. 

We've done a few of these over the years and I've never had anyone pick Option #2.

Hi all,I had a tenant move out leaving over $5k in damages. 

Real Estate is definitely not just a "numbers analysis" and you are definitely thinking about things the right way - but I think a good next step for you would be to spend some time putting a lot of this stuff into a (very) basic financial model/spreadsheets mapping out all the potential costs and estimates on effect (effect on value, on exit, different scenarios) - I think getting started with that framework should help with these decisions immensely