Agreement with top tenant that we will not increase his rent for a year if he lets my friend sleep in one of the rooms as it is his primary residence. 

I would like to ensure that my tenants are not disturbed by the sound of my sons playing on the main level.

Always have reserves especially in todays market. a Nice $5000 in your back pocket will make you sleep better at night.

In other words, if you had no immediate family, and simply needed a place to sleep 10-15 days a month, what would jump to your mind?

Maybe they have the funds now in hand and feel safer and can sleep at night before they deploy.   

Once I moved into the vacant side of the duplex, I realized I still only needed a room to sleep.

I love that I will never have to withdraw any of that money, it’s like a soft blanket that helps me sleep.

I’m eating, sleeping, and breathing podcasts/books right now to increase my financial literacy so that within the next 6-9 months I can make that first jump!

You need to ask a California lawyer where the line is between a squatter there with utilities and a whole house of furniture and a vagrant that broke in the day before after you left working on the place and is there the next morning when you show up to work on the property and has nothing but a sleeping bag.

I should have let him sleep in his car and found someone else to do the work in my basement suite.