I still very much enjoy working on cars, and plan to continue doing so because I love it, but I'm ready to start growing my wealth as well as generating passive income.I've owned a few homes, I have some experience as a self managing landlord, I've made some mistakes and had a couple big wins as well.

I'm generally going to let the occupants stay since they ate already there as long as they continue to take care of the property and keep paying the rent.If the rent is low dont start off with a major price increase unless you do want to loose these tenants, spend money on getting the house ready for new tenants and loose a couple months rent while all this is going on.

But the only sure thing is that we will continue to get older.This week brought fresh evidence for me, as if I didn't have enough already, that the main question you have to ask is not to decide to do this or not, but whether your spouse is fully on board for going ahead with real estate investing.

Read the PM contract in detail as often it's in their interest to continually place unqualified tenants in your property since they take a 10% management fee per month or 1/2 to 1 months rent for placement.

As a true blue atheist I don't pay any attention to this type of babbling but if it were to happen no one will continue to exict so who cares.

Find the ones that are hard working and you would like to continue working with. 4. based on your strategy, learn about what you need to look out for when you look for properties. 

The best way to go is to continue to save and increase your down payment.

And I keep learning as I continue to move forward.

Given that the we have had double digit appreciation the past few years, I thnk it is very unlikely that this will continue.

They were very helpful and we continue to learn through this forum because of input that you folks take the time to share.