*looks at her bookshelf* Of his, I read (according to my bookshelf)- The ABCs of Real Estate Investing, Guide to Investing, OPM- Other People's Money, Real Estate Loopholes, Increase Your Financial IQ, Before You Quit Your Job, SalesDogs, and The Advanced Guide to Real Estate Investing.

I would increase that percentage with other factors, such as if the hourly painter came from a reliable referral source.In a nutshell, an hourly painter to me sounds inexperienced and better be waaaaay cheaper than everybody else.

If you own a property through a reassessment period your taxable value is capped at a 15% increase at each an every 5 year reassessment (not counting physical type changes).

I’m ignoring closing costs in this post due to immateriality.In addition to the cashflow, about $100 of each mortgage payment went toward reducing my debt, and increasing my equity. 

Will increase that in my calculation.

I am experiencing an issue where my properties values are increasing much faster than the market rent can keep up with.

As he's gotten older, the portion destined for Save and Spend have increased - though Spend is still the skinniest part of the cow.When we retrofit a building, he receives all the scrape metal (wiring, plumbing, doors/windows/siding), and in the past five years has done surprisingly well (the Cow has had to make a few trips to the bank to "poop" {as the boy likes to say}).  

Over the past year flower has decreased from 60% of the market to 50% of the market, so oils and edibles are increasing their share. 

From 2000-2005 we went from a peace time military to full combat operations in two different countries and due to that congress approved increases in military manning and the Marine Corps grew from 183k to 202k.

@Pete Budagher- listening to the podcasts is a great way to be exposed to different ways of investing in real estate, and can help you notice which strategy/niche you gravitate to.For example, after listening to many podcasts, reading a lot of books, I noticed that multi-family investing was my 'thing' and I now spend a lot of time on that (networking, learning, etc.).