Years ago I had an old guy tell me that unless I had the backbone to evict a grandma with three sick babies on Christmas Eve, I should reconsider owning rental property. 

Pack your warm clothes because it is COLD up here lately. 

It looks new and clean but keeps leaking and not drying my clothes.

ok...1. research into demographics in your area, baby boomers mobile home areas, average income, (pay attention to stats of kids in middle school, buy and hold remember?)

When the tenants lease expired last year we renewed with a $75 increase (still below market, we were having a baby at the time....).

I want that $ to make little $ babies, and I have yet to see physical gold/silver "grow" more. 

Stay  out of the STR where you have many inherent risks and you have to clothe, feed and manage it 24/7 365 days per year.

However, when life happens, which it does to most, that is: you get married and start having kids, your spouse tells he/she is not too keen about driving around the block 3 times before finding parking OR the sirens wakes the baby up OR finding great schools may be a bit difficult. 

Still 2 of the tenants in my 4 tenant building still choose to go to the laundromat and pay $7.00/load for a big washer and even more for the large dryer and throw two weeks worth of clothes in at a time because they perceive the value of their time is worth more than running 2-3 loads in my cheaper machine and having to spend 4 hours on laundry and $6.00 when for $15.00 they can be done in 1 hour.

(I'm not sure exactly which strategies to employ - but Seller Finance and Sub to have certainly caught my eye.)I'm looking to employ the vast majority of my (future) profits into feeding, clothing and providing shelter to the homeless and working with anyone who'll work with me to develop such people into productive hard working members of society.David