The good property is constantly feeding the marginal or dog of a property the owner cannot get rid of so instead of doing very well they are treading water.I would rather buy 3 really great properties a year then buy 6 to do volume and then those take away from the other 3 and create a lot of stress and headache.

The people I feel sorry for are the ones taking their whole checks and hoping a 1 in 300 million plus chance happens and now they can't pay their bills or feed their families.  

I never defaulted on anything, but I remember one month I had literally no money to buy feed and basically lived of spaghetti and bananas despite an executive income. 

Their good properties were feeding the dogs for propping up cash flow.

You might also want to continue to feed your capex reserve fund.

. $1500 for the tank & the rest was "meeting code" for the exhaust draft inducer & upgraded propane line-feeds.

My access road that fed 4 houses currently feeds a dormitory and 4 houses with 3 more possible.  

I also have no sympathy whatsoever for drug addicts that are doing their drugs in the open, leaving their dirty syringes on our sidewalks and in our parks, and commiting crimes to feed their habit. they should be in jail.

I'll be following your success, as I'm in a similar boat living in SoCal and already feeding off of this thread.

Keep churning that active income machine and feed the passive wheel later as you go!