A house that sells turnkey retail for 60k at this late phase in the market, that would probably easily cost at least double that to rebuild is a house that has gone DOWN in inflation adjusted value, probably consistently for decades on end.

I think as long as you're paying your mortgage, your lender is making money of you and will prly just leave you alone.We did have to put up some of our own money to fix it up and cover some of the expenses, but we also weren't paying rent or the mortgage, so we could easily afford it.We liked this solution because there is a lot of value in it for our family members.

They easily put in 40 hours cleaning up dog urine and the mess left.

(We'll call the dream home house 1 and the current home house 2) House 1 is actually a duplex. we could easily rent out the upper for 600 a month.

. $300,0002nd, 3rd, 4th year house sale proceeds minus payments in CD $1,750,0004th anniversary of signing loan total liquid cash on hand in CD $3,510,000I have now have easily made 4 payments of $300,000 totaling $1,200,000.

. $300,0002nd, 3rd, 4th year house sale proceeds minus payments in CD $1,750,0004th anniversary of signing loan total liquid cash on hand in CD $3,510,000I have now have easily made 4 payments of $300,000 totaling $1,200,000.

I think the learning curve is pretty steep on the first property and its better to take it slow, manage it well, implement systems to "perfect" the first one so that its easily scalable to a lot of others.

So the power cord is just dangling behind the cabinets, which I can barely see through a drawer which does not come out easily at all and would need to be disassembled in order to pull it out, grab the cord and stretch it to the far side of the drawer and plug it in.After trying to reach this any way possible, my agent and I were kind of scratching our heads and wondering what we would buy at Home Depot to plug this in and avoid taking apart the drawer/cabinet.I called out to my awesome 5 year old, Kahlan, who wanted to come with Daddy to the house and asked if she thought she could fit in this drawer and if she wanted to be a hero.

His lot is zoned for it and he says it will easily rent for $850.

I am not sure how easily the existing tenants in the 3 bedroom unit would be to replace to do some light renovations and up the rents but I will play that one by ear and research possibly strategies.