This is my aim for this series of posts.

They’re not paying for fake tv commercials and lying. 

Dan Wickland the mindset of your masseuse is incredibly off base and is probably based on no real evidence besides what he reads in the news or sees on tv.

...and from the beautiful paradise of Hawaii, @Kiley Nakamura has just written what is very near perfection.It's not about one property...it's about the system, the long and short range plan, the long and short range goals, what you have to work with now, and how what you "will have" to work with in the future will impact what you do then.To be successful in REI, you must have a plan, based on a series of achievable Milestones, that are built from your long range financial goals (personal debt payoff, and monthly/yearly passive income), which MUST include the short term financial goals (living NOW) as part of the overall plan.Those that buy properties one at a time, with focus on that one property, then utter the words "now what do I do", are going to make it very, very hard to achieve any real success. 

Now, I give Jacks team the tenants name and phone number and then I go watch tv with a glass of wine.

I have Series LLC set up so if i add a property the bank can fairly easily create an account for each series.

On the other hand, put as series of (a) wins together, and public support tends to grow, helping to bring more (b) issues, or at least larger and less-simple (a) issues, into the realm of the solvable.I doubt anybody else is going to read this carefully enough to understand it, but you did deserve an answer, Eric.

How many hours do you spend watching TV or playing video games or smoking dope? 

My situation (in Illinois) seems to be going towards 2 series LLCS with operating agreements pertaining to each of my daughters.

A series of round robin cash out refinances has been much more common for the last 5 years or so.