Sometimes you $170k can't all be active in deals because of tax payments.Some people prefer to make money in real estate without having to wrangle contractors or fix toilets or get milked dry by property managers.

(Compare that to $7.00 a gal for milk).

It's like you wanna buy a bottle of Altadena milk, and you hesitate between calling Altadena or buying the bottle at Trader Joes. 

What would it be like to rid yourself of the headache of "landlording" and just milk the cash cow known as a note and as a bonus possibly receive a higher level of cash flow?

Money Mustache has  one of the best articles I've ever read on this subject, and Scott Trench wrote an entire book that gives you the path to financial freedom from an early age, Set for Life .

@Carlos LopezWhy not milk it for all its worth.

This will also weed out the slow/lazy contractors that want to charge by the hour/day and milk it to charge you more.

Money Mustach).Fast forward to now and I'm getting the REI bug, and have been looking around the BP blog posts and forums trying to get some ideas of what I might want to do next to move closer to financial Independence.

No sense crying over spilled milk, but I would have posted it on the 24th.Actually no, I would have posted it where it expired on the 23rd. 

This is when you can make sure that it is vacant.they have been living there 10 months rent free-they are clearly going to  milk it for as much as they can, Do NOT offer them any money.