I was fortunate.

I worked in a treasury department for a fortune 100 company and while I didn’t touch cash, there were bunch of standard practices, such as the ability to segregate income and disbursements, have lockbox services, accumulation and zero balance accounts that should reduce the amount of slush capital you have to keep especially as you add properties.

So many I see just want to go with the first one they meet because they found them on Angie's List, Zillow or they come to their Thanksgiving meal, and then the newbie get frustrated when they are not seeing the results they want.Unfortunately (or fortunately) most successful RE investors are good at it because they have the patience to work at it until they find the right deals and people.

Fortunately, they decided to move out on their own shortly thereafter, no cash for keys necessary.

So basically if tenants aren’t following the rules of your lease agreement, then there’s nothing you can do in Texas. fortunately they lifted the eviction freeze last week!

It's hard to be patient, but I was fortunate to have cash available 2008-2012 and was very happy with the outcome.

And generate passive income without giving up all your fortune. 

I have two suggestions that will definitely help get your wife closer to being on board - 1) Sell the dream and 2) Make her worry free.Sell the dream:I've been happily married for almost 2 years and I was fortunate to have sold my wife on the idea of REI, just before our marriage.

@Omar Khan  And they stole our vodka right out of our freezer.Those were the teeth of fate that tore into me, those were the lips of fortune that smacked over me, that was the gullet of horror through which I descended into the heaving acid of the belly of life that made me the real estate investor I am today, flaked and formed, reconstituted and transformed.McRib is more than a program, more than a lifestyle.

However, we have been fortunate to also gain some serious equity in our primary residence in CA and want avoid paying those capital gains.