I have one property being used as a VR currently, but have plans to manage more and want to be set up early on to take on more properties.I am currently using AirBnb, FlipKey, Vacationrentals.com (HomeAway family), and completing my stand along website is a work in progress now.

Welcome and keep us posted on your progress!

With that, a roof top lease brings many more questions than can be addressed in a forum, access, who has access such as engineer, certified tower maintenance techs, roof maintenance, insurance and liability, loss and recovery requirements........ and this lease will effect market value, consider the liabilities and contingent liabilities of maintenance and access, not just the surface of the roof but the structure below the deck.

My wife wanted to keep me alive and that has really paid off except for how long I would take to recover.  I

I felt we had no way to determine if we were on time, on budget, or how we were progressing. 

@Johannes Schunter - MACRS 200% DB is the short name for using the Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS) using a 200% Declining balance - it's the same depreciation methodology you use on your tax returns.Here's the IRS Depreciation Guide => https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p946.pdf@Ariel G. - My theory is if I buy a stove, and it has a 7 year life, I can reserve the entire cost of the stove over those 7 years. 

That is paid off now, and business is picking up to the point that we will make a decent profit over and above the draws we have been taking home.What I am wondering is that we have some leeway in when we take in some of the progress payments on jobs (receivables).

Do you plan to change your buying strategy as your career (& bank account) progresses?

Good luck and keep us posted on your progress.

Grinding and sacrifice to get your first property and then progressively snowball or you can try and find a partner that will be the financing person while you provide value somewhere else.