It would be easy to take your sweet time turning that stuff in while you rent to someone else.

Neil I think $20/hour, if you are going to garauntee 40 hours a week, to manage 25 properties would be a pretty sweet gig that plenty of capable people would jump at.

For someone who is head of household with a qualifying child, there is a sweet spot for getting the maximum earned income credit (which is a refundable credit.

Now here come the real sweet part.

I once had an applicant, a 32 year old woman, who was very sweet and polite, had 2 kids, was pregnant and had worked for 7 years at Walmart.

There are plusses and minuses to every job even within real estate, but you won't know what your sweet spot is until you jump in.

Sweet girls.  

Just make sure your furnace tech takes along some milk bones for the sweet puppy dog and everyone is happy even bowser.  

I can do what I want... that doesn't mean buying yachts and bathing in the finest wines or anything silly... but having the money to travel, see the world, enjoy fine things (in moderation), etc...Beyond that, I want my net worth rising WHILE I'm retired. 

Get dual ant bait stations (with protein and sweet bait in them).