My wife is one of them.

The tenant and his wife would write apology notes to my wife and I, and they would make a $5,000 donation to the charity of my choice. $5,000 was not an amount of money they readily had, and they requested I allow them a couple of months to gather the funds so their kids could have a Christmas.

SW Michigan is a beautiful and growing market, with great opportunities across the board, from family homes to investment properties.

When I want to rent out this house, I am thinking of leasing it to an LLC which will have both me and my wife as members and that LLC will be leasing it out to the tenants.

Between a demanding FT job (that I enjoy,) a wife who also works FT, and two young children, I have no real desire to "all in" to real estate as a FT career at this point in my life.

His wife who is in college for a degree that will lead to a great job with great pay when she graduates in June, now has full rent to pay, plus the cost of raising 6 kids by herself. 

Apparently there'd been a murder/suicide in the home, the previous owner went crazy and killed his wife in the basement, and then weeks later himself.

The beauty of being an adult is you get to define success however you want. 

My wife and I have a company that invests in the Toledo area, additionally we are still building out our network.

My wife and I have two reliable vehicles but I decided when they were paid off to start saving right away for the next one by making car payments to myself.