Business days include: •A day when you conduct significant business activity •A day you spend traveling to a business destination (on a reasonably direct route) •A weekend or holiday sandwiched by business days •Weekend stay-over days necessary to save transportation costsWhat Travel Expenses Are Deductible?

I would like to keep a little buffer in there though, maybe 20% of improvement budget.?

I've really enjoyed reading the expert blog articles and spending hours going through the forums.

I am spending several hundred thousand dollars to purchase properties through my agent.

Spend your time creating the details of the deals, not he paperwork.

BUT please don't spend a ton of money with a subscription service that retains all your files and or traffic flow.

Since investment capital expecting a certain % return can't spend much time being idle (right, Bryan Hancock???)

I just checked and there are only 4 homes available in the neighborhood of 200 homes (all 100K over my cost - I expect to spend 20-25).

If it is not, then it is irrelevant anyway if you move out as long as your wife spends the 2 of 5.

Follow up and follow through is what I spend a great deal of my time doing.