Added washer and dryer hook-ups and installed the machines.

You’re building a self-funding machine.

Maybe he spends 20 years working for a corporation then should he build a machine shop in your garage and start a tool company and compete with Milwaukee Tools?

Of course you want to do your main gig with the highest integrity, but where appropriate you might look at some software called Deal Machine and as you seen potential deal homes, plug them in and work them.

He took his time machine back to 2013.  

If you own at pre-2022 prices and rates, they are cash machines.

Another had a parts vending machine, massive.  

If you're a broker, it's easy enough to download the data from the MLS (I do single family, multi family, land and rentals) onto your local machine.

If I had a time machine I would have bought a vacation place there when prices weren't outrageous. 

When a deal is more of an equity play than a cash-flow machine, the tenant experience becomes your competitive advantage, especially in HOA communities where you can’t do much outside.A few things that tend to move the needle for renters without blowing your budget:1.