Each year I will slowly (I call it the BBQ method) eat away at it, and when I hang up the uniform, I can fully retire! 

Just have to eat the deposit when you go to sale the property! 

A PM will eat up your profit in no time.

Eat at the dinner table?

Lived in it from2013 to 2015, then rented it out until 2018 at which point I moved back in for 2 years. Total time rented, about 4 years, total time lived in, about 4 years.Bought 145K plus 5K closing costs, sold 416K...

In my research I've found that I'm not allowed to charge a pet deposit for service animals and that it appears that as a landlord, I have limited/no ability to validate if the animal is truly a service animal vs. a companion.

And as you can see on bp, there are a lot of investors here that are eager to eat up inventory coming onto the market.

You have to focus on cash flow, but going remote will just eat into that cashflow every step you take.

If you are buying in a growing area, I would think that after a few of these, you wouldn't need to do FHA any longer- those refis are going to eat up a big portion of your budget, so the quicker you can get to conventional loans, the better!

Racoons, Possums, anything looking for a quick meal and the damage that would come with said animal.