See when your shingles have about twenty years on them and you set fire to the roof to get the insurance to buy you a new roof they are only gonna buy you a twenty year old roof. 

Or Brett Cutler nine zero four five zero two twenty forty two.

What do we credit for creating a market that afforded today's landlord the callous and unconscionable right to hide behind a lawyer while you tell a ten or twenty year tenant "you are half a month past due so Go Fuq Yourself".

When it comes to buying a rental property, I do my best to buy properties that have a decent chance of lasting the twenty years I intend to operate them with minimal upkeep after the initial turn.

A five year credit line at 1/4% under prime and a ten year fixed commercial loan with a twenty year amortization.Moving to the commercial loan sphere for SFH just adds another layer of complexity to your analysis, what happens if the environment is terrible in ten years when you have to refinance the debt. . .

That gives me just over twenty years to realize this plan.Thanks for the advice on not mentioning the amount of capital I would like to invest at the outset; I guess it is safest not to mention it.

So i have been able to purchase a few of these lots through the delinquent county tax sale for about twenty cents on the dollar.

twenty five years ago, I came to terms with my being unemployable and got very, very motivated to make up for what was almost a decade.

Purchase price: $150,000 Cash invested: $75,000 Sale price: $332,500 Don't miss this Freedman's cottage built in the Roaring Twenties.

(It's a similar situation to the reason I got into computers twenty years ago).There was never a hint of working hard / above and beyond from my broker.