Many of colleagues go into teaching at this point; I'm laying the groundwork for a late-in-life career in REI.)Lately I've been wondering: should I skip the SFR rental part of the plan?

It is the work associated with it, the unreliability, the amount of people you piss off, the skip tracing, the undelivered mail returns, the amount of hours you put in it, the lack of automation.No man.

Go for brass bottom meters with analog registers, skip the pulse output unless you have hundreds of units.

@Nakia Jay if you're looking to run a RVM campaign, then ListSource won't have phone numbers and you'll have to spend money getting your list skip traced. 

Info that I have obtained thus far:- City stickers on the doors for being vacant and water shutoff notice- Purchased 07/2016 for $135K; FHA mortgaged for $132.5K- Partial Claim Mortgage of $11,528 issued 09/2021 to catch up mortgage payments- Certificate of Forfeiture from county issued 04/2022 for delinquent taxes- Tax bill was paid in December 2022 by mortgage company ($0 currently due)- Water account has $775 past due, as of last bill date 02/28/2023- The duplex has a shared carport with an identical looking duplex next door (different owner), which has holes in the roof.I used a free skip tracer to find a number for the owner but wanted to get some advice from seasoned investors on how you would approach a situation like this, as newbie?

., did you skip trace the address?

The property is a former bed amd breakfast recently converted to long term rentals.

My final comment on Carei is that we should meet for breakfast before one of the days or dinner afterwords.

We're also thinking about taking down the wall that separates the kitchen and the living room and making it a breakfast bar instead.

If you have self-employment activity, you may be eligible for a Solo 401k plan which will allow you to skip the custodial middleman and take direct control over the funds in the retirement account.