Find a way to increase that number by taking on Extra work to fill that time that is not labor intensive or manually stressful etc. regardless of what people tell you on here it takes real money to buy real estate .

With your levels of cash and availability to cash it wouldn't put as much stress on the project beyond the profit.

I felt myself getting really annoyed and stressed as I read through your post because I have also had tenants whom I suspected of purposely causing damage to my property in order to get me to make repairs.

Improving to the south but not great. 85 is much more stress-free commute.2 - Gastonia has the one major thing that I love most of all and I probably mentioned before: They have a downtown, walkable Main Street.

Based on how things are in the current real estate market (prices/returns), and the general stresses of partnerships-- do you guys have options to buy properties for yourselves rather than partnering with the other couple?

When buying, everyone should stress-test their deals to ensure they can cash flow with a rent decrease. 

However, remember that in doing so you will have stress in that you NEED to make real estate work.

Justin Westmoreland I think what you’re running into in your proposed deal is a lack of stress testing.

But it is really personal preference; would you rather stress about rates or about your personal credit.

This fire, while caused some mental stress, financial didn’t even cause me a bump in the road.