And if I spend two hours dealing with some minor maintenance issue rather than paying someone $100 to fix it while I watch TV, I'm ahead.

Flatscreen tv's can be mounted right to the wall.

Setting up utilities, especially TV and internet, is a pain, and sometimes the tech support won't help your tenants when they call, even if you put their names on the account.For me, renting by rooms is an acceptable last resort when I can't fill my units with groups.

If you save $100 per month, you'd need 35 months in order to get to a down payment amount which is almost 3 years.It sounds silly, but there are many people who would rather save for 6 months and buy a flat-screen TV than save 3 years to buy a house.Plus there are cell phone bills, Facebook games to buy, etc. that take away from the money people could be saving to buy a house.

So, feel free to press people with difficult questions when "interviewing" them.  

The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”Calvin Coolidge

The topic was negative/positive thinking:"Wednesday I made the final decision to switch from dish network to Direct TV.

We specialize in Shaker Hts and between the taxes, point of sale and rental rates you will be hard pressed to compete with areas like Warren.

Although I would bump up your TV spending a lot.

When we were voting for marijuana legalization in Oregon, the local sheriff was the one on TV supporting the bill.This is a made up statement uneducated people use to scare each other.