Good morning Mr.

A $1,000 trip for five days will be much better than a $30k+ disaster.

A lot of areas only allow them to be posted on the weekends now and smarter landlords post them on sat morning and then retrieve them sun night.

Besides the 14 days personal use, you can also have a open and closing "work" trip to your vacation home that does not count in the 14 days, a little bonus.And if you rent it out for 14 days or less total for the year, you do not have to declare the income, though you can't deduct any expenses except taxes & interest as a personal residence.For me emotion has to be separate from business.

Every morning she would carefully evaluate the MLS for new foreclosures on the market and email them to me.

Something cheap within $60k with existing tenants...Then I noticed that there are a lot of vacant units and it may not be easy to get one with good cashflow.Looking elsewhere, i thought West Coast is preferred as I am residing in Singapore and it will be a shorter trip should I need to come by to inspect.

I probably made about 20 trips out to our newest acquisition (1 hour drive) in March, but gas was still averaging a little above $3/gallon then.

Sorry I didn't reply earlier, but preparing for a trip and a move and not on BP except when not sleeping in the middle of the night!

I have made one trip per day to Menards the last 10 days, so the flooring guy recognized me.

I'm thinking about taking another trip down to our local lumber yard (NOT in a BIG box store) and see what else they have/suggest.