Eric, the biggest value for airline miles is when you redeem for premium cabin space on international flights or when flights are ultra-expensive, like around holidays or popular events.

Expenses growing is part of the game, nothing is static. 

Yes the property does get the mortgage and such paid (a slight loss each month, but just increased the rent so for the short term renter we have we are making a positive cash flow, but only for a few more months).I will definitely be asking questions and trying to get our portfolio growing. 

Certainly you could go all cash and certainly some investors recommend this but you will not grow your wealth nearly as fast as if you used leverage though it will be much safer.

@Kyle Ferguson @Thomas S. is spot on about making saving, clearing debt and growing your wealth a priority with your significant other.

Popular social-media platform Facebook may have gotten even more popular this week as founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg testifies to Congress about the company's potential misuse of user data and privacy: Its stock price actually increased."

The only other place I could look that has a growing population is an hour and a half south in Santa Rosa which is getting in to Bay Area Real Estate (read: loads of money). 

The house was sold in October 2017.Last month (March 2018), the new owner reached out to my agent and said that the workmanship of the remodel was crappy and caused the leak behind the walls, and created mold to grow.

Your question is popular with people getting started in real estate.

But, to my way of thinking, I'm way too popular in real life that I don't need it on-line. ;-) Lol