I believe in using debt to buy real estate, but it comes with inherent risk already and people's natural propensity to spend more or more spend more easily when they are spending something other than the money they earned through blood sweat toil and tears only increases that risk.  

Since this was more of a convenience idea and there was no bad blood, we decided to just maintain the status quo until we want to sell the property completely so we can both use 1031. 

Blood spatter all over the wall above the used condom on the driveway.....Now that's a party.

Doing this, and you cut out your business' blood line (unless you can find & offer really good deals that investors are willing to bend over backward to get the deals from you) .

Emergency issues (think fire, flood, blood) are immediate but it sounds like most of these calls are for fairly useless concerns.At some point you are likely to get fed up with this nonsense and either offer this tenant "the Happy Clause" or simply decide not to renew their lease when the time comes to do so.

Buy when fear is rampant and blood is in the street.

When I was going to school they never taught us money management or wealth building in fact a lot of schools don't which sucks because that is why most are bred in the low to middle class because the lack of education on money management and wealth creation so we learn from what was taught from our blood which was taught by their blood it's a vicious cycle(of course my parents tried to teach me money management but being young and stupid I always spent it wish I had learned from them early on)

My rentals average better than 2%, but they are all about cash flow and I bought them when the blood was in the street.

We are moving back into the house this summer, as we love the area so much, and know I am committing a cardinal sin here, and are emotionally attached to the house.There was a lot of blood, sweat, and a few tears, involved in that house.

You have to pick a job that will pay your bills for the time invested and simultaneously it has to be something that you will enjoy doing.Can you handle blood (I can't), are you handy, are you technically inclined?