Have you ever stopped to think about how much wealth you’ve built up just from being a homeowner? As home values rise, so does your net worth. And, if you’ve been in your house for a few years (or longer), there’s a...

Lastly, what’s been the biggest surprise about being a landlord so far?

Well, surprise, surprise the phony investment firm up and disappeared.

ThanksThis thread is 4 years old and I'd be surprised if the original poster is still around.   

And surprisingly she has been paying rent.

That's the biggest piece that can surprise investors.

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by what you find. 

Quote from @Pankaj Malik: I’m just really surprised that the tenant is not taking the option to break the lease break with a $ number offered (1 month rent plus reasonable amount for parts of house he wasn’t able to use) that is within a couple thousand dollars of what he wanted anyway. 

It has surprised us delivering nearly $60k in gross revenue annually.

Both of the members of the LLC we are hoping to do the cash out refinance for are also LLCs if that matters, so it would be distributed from one LLC to another LLC to hopefully the members pockets.Want to make sure that the money remains tax free the whole way and we don't have any surprises.