Your new tenants have a legal justification to look to you to settle and return the balance of their security deposit.

If your plan is to use this to retire, why would you care if you only breaking even if you are reducing the principle balance for your future?

Go to yahoo finace and look at their balance sheet.

In commercial arrangements, profits can be assigned as premiums, but I really doubt any small HML follows such premium structures based on the balances.

I made a spreadsheet with our budget on XCEL but I have like 12 tabs - Bathroom has a tab, flooring has a tab, and so on, then I have a recap that shows Budget, Actual, Balance.

Todd-Assuming you have no credit card balances or personal loans outstanding (these should be paid for first) you should not need to make extreme changes but it does require you have discretionary capital.If you make $4K a month income and your monthly nut is $3K, then you have $1K in discretionary.

I think it is quite possible to balance the two: make the most out of your education while developing a skill set as well as relationships that can help you hit the ground running once you graduate.

My wife and I really try to keep a balance between sinking too much into a rental and making it attractive to renters.We left the old cabinets which function very well and opted for a very deep cleaning, paint, and heavy duty shelf liners.

My loan balance is $75,000 now.

I don't want to ignore legitimate requests or provide bad service, but I think there is a balance somewhere in between allowing these guys to text every little issue that bothers them and being some type of unresponsive bad landlord.