Hi @Ryan White,I was close to moving to Las Cruces at a recent point in my life.

FHA has PMI for the life of the loan, look at the note for the property and the terms and see what type of financing it is and go from there.

@Kaye BranchHello Kaye, I don't know about the neighborhood you are talking about but I have lived in very rough neighborhoods in my life. 

You are asking complete strangers to make a judgment call about someone you have known your whole life.

There is more to life than the 9-5. 

I guess I would self-manage and basically just not count any of my managing as an expense when reporting my business taxes (thus increasing my total taxable income but not having to pay SS/Med tax)But then what happens if I don't pay a med/ss tax for the next 40 years of my life?

I already do that in various aspects in life - helping others without expecting anything in return.

The dishonesty comes from the long trail of lies extending the life of a deal you never intended to complete in the first place. 

Humans, man, they'll game the system.

But I've cleared enough poison ivy to develop a very bad reaction to it, and I am occasionally exposed to it as part of this life of running rentals.