i'm still old school and change out locks, but i do use the same brand each time..meaning i just switch knobs but not the inside hardware..takes 15 minutes to do front and back door (i'm not that handy, so i'm sure others do it quicker :) ) you don't want to 'god forbid' have a tenant come back and break in when new tenant has moved in...that could be a huge liability..in fact, i used to think switching locks between apartments and houses and keeping a few extra sets to rotate as tenants moved out would be sufficient, but now i prefer to just buy a new set for 25 bucks each time.

Unlike our investment properties, we always considered our home as buying a lifestyle -- schools, recreation, pool, waterfront, etc., how we wanted to live at that stage of our life.

House A is right down the street from a top elementary school, feeding into a top high school.

Its a great town with a great school!

A friend of mine from high school his parents buy tax auction homes fix them up and either flip or rent them.

I went to high school with a guy on the 05 national championship team.But yeah, Gig Em for sure.

We always been very interested in Real Estate Investment, but been busy with schools, kids.

I plan to jump in and either bird dog or wholesale hopefully by the time kids are back in school.

But I got an 'A' in the school of hard knocks.Mike P.

When we started out, we made good money buying a fixer-upper in a decent neighborhood, living in it while we fixed it up, selling a few years later, doing it again and again, planning to move every few years until the kids needed to stay in a school district (even then moved within the district once).