I've used down payment coming from the (improbable) cash-out refinance on a car. 

Be extremely carful with your efforts to accommodate this tenant, it could become extremally expensive for you.

I travel a lot and it helps me to educate myself on specific topics while in the car or plane. 

Might be a year away yet, building those reserves and getting my own financial footprint reduced (might knock out the car payments first), but we shall see. 

Henry Ford said "you can have any color car as long as it's black".

Repairs do not have to recapture when you sell the house too.)16) Utilities17) Pre rental expenses ( expenses incurred before finding a tenant )18) If you use your Car: This can include- oil changes, Maintenance, gas, repairs, parking, tolls, and depreciation.

Then you will look for broken shutters, tall grass, debris and abandoned cars and think I wonder if that is a motivated seller.Then you will look at boarded up, fenced up, burned out buildings and say I know that is a motivated seller, how do I find them.

He calls to say he accidentally left his money order for the rent in his daughter's car and she lives 3 hours away. 

His girlfriend had moved out and took their only car.  

Tenant also left and old car pack of trash inside the car.