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.

The family is fortunate that there are funds to start your new life but it is not with out risk; wish you every success.Oren

As you can see below, when they’re not working their tales off and putting their lives on the line they do community improvement type work like canvassing neighborhoods for the sick, elderly and less fortunate.

My W-2 employer has roughly 20,000 employees in a stable tech related industry, and fortunately several of us (myself included) are at income levels that make us accredited investors. 

Fortunately there are lenders that offer a second mortgage on non owner occupied properties.