We're looking forward to other milestones as well, like starting a family, me being able to afford to be a stay at home mom because of our extra income from our rentals, and moving out of CA in the next few years.

“Milestone Payments.”

His responsibilities will be to manage the prehab and to set milestones for contractors, pulling permits, and basically just being liable for the whole prehab.  

Payment Terms:- What is your payment schedule, including initial deposits and milestone payments?

Big milestone for us and a big sticking point for a lot of syndicators who go to GP syndication school!

That way you can claim victory with short milestones. 

While those milestones are the very, very tasty icing on the cake, I'm far more interested in the challenges real estate presents.

You can take time off, but if your mind is elsewhere because you feel like you have a purpose, trying to reach milestones to get closer to the life you've visualized, taking time off only creates dissonance because you're putting that vision on hold. 

Keep trying it if you like but establish a milestone date of leaving it if the ROI just isn’t seen. 

As per our usual practice, we have a schedule software and input the various trades into a continuous chronology that takes us to the major midway milestone, when the building is locked up and ready for the inspections.