I'm leery of being seen as a W-9 employee by their company.

The truth is that most successful businesses have multiple owners and/or employees.

I am approaching a dead end despite educating myself in real estate investing because I am ambitious and willing to accept risk but I know that my current investment strategy isn't fast enough for me and it's too costly.I am in Wellington, Colorado (8,000 population with bare essential infrastructure), which is 15 minutes north of Fort Collins, Colorado (a city with 160,000+ population), which is an hour north of Denver, Colorado.I am interested in buying and holding rental properties using a property management service because my work requires me to be out of state for weeks at a time and my availability is very low right now (If I could, I would be flipping houses because I love to be hands on with projects but I am making good money right now as an employee and I don't think I could make this much by flipping houses).I have purchased two new construction houses so far and I am unsure of what my next investment should be.

I particularly interested in smaller parks (10-30 homes) where you wouldn't necessarily have a full-time employee on site.  

Losing money due to inflation this year but I will never forget when I was a younger person and all the more senior employees I was around were panicking in because their stocks tanked...

Before those, A PROJECT OPPORTUNITIES, B ACTIVE PROJECTS, C COMPLETED PROJECTS, D GENERAL ADMIN (contractor, vendors, employee files, educational books, scanned mails).

I own a business besides My properties and I find getting to work even 1/2 hour before employees and clients makes a huge difference on how my day goes.

Hello Everyone,I'm Anton, a recently retired public safety employee in the northern Virginia area and I would like to learn more about Out of state, Buy and hold investing.

Again, this is not a stab at all drillers but as a word of caution that this is typically more common with this type of tenant.There are several different job types and stages in the oil field.Beginning of a well:Construction crews (builds the pad)DrillersPipeliners (come and go as well depending on the current pipeline infrastructure or lack thereof)Truck drivers (equipment)Fracking crews.After well construction:Construction crews/welders (build compressor stations and/or transfer stations)Truck drivers.After well, pad and construction is completed: (These are your more steady, longer term tenants)Pumpers/gaugers (maintain the well and oil/gas production from the well.)Production employees (manage the flow of gas and oil and sends those products to the buyer)Mechanics/maintenance employees (maintains compressor stations and other equipment)Environmental regulatory compliance employees (small number of these people)Truck drivers.I'm sure I have missed a bunch and not every well and/or company operates exactly as stated but that is the basics of it.I'm not sure if you wanted to read all that.

I used to try to keep track of capital expenses versus repairs but when you have hundreds of units and you have employees going to Home Depot every other day, trying to keep track of what on everything or receipt might be what category, or try to set up a depreciation schedule for 10,000 different things would be impossibleI just come up with a percent that's conservative yet fair.I consider X percent of my total materials and labor to be capital the first year, and a smaller percentage to be capital the second year until it finally stabilizes for year 3 on.