There is no need to be in such a hurry to join the "rat race". 

That gave us a good enough income to move out of that rat pee smelling trailer and into a 3/2 2500 sqft log cabin, (rental) and then a year later, into a 4300 sqft 7br 51/2 ba, 4300 sqft home that looks like something out of loghome living.

Your letting them use you as a door mat.

It's not that it provided top notch investing advice, it just allowed your knowledge glass to expand so that you could fit more content in.His next book Casflow Quadrant had more detailed information that expands the knowledge glass once again and gives enough information to decide whether you wanted to be Employee, Self Employed, Business Owner or Investor.Then his game Cashflow allows you to practice digging yourself out of the rat race using the broad concepts from the books.They were never meant to provide THE blueprint for success.  

I don't believe Airbnb gives a rats *** about anything except their bottom line. 

I think part of my reluctance to "put in my notice", as my day job is being self-employed in what I consider the rat race, is that right now only I can do that.

You’re required to provide what’s in your lease is the basic fact.As many have stated the minimum of what’s required is typically heat, water, electricity, and a safe and healthy environment inside (aka no mold everywhere and rats all over the place).The question you need to be asking is what *SHOULD* you provide.

I want both - positive cash flow (passive income) AND low expenses, that's how you get out of the rat race.

As long as you do your due diligence, when people are telling you you're crazy, you're probably doing something right...to rise above the rat race and start making your money work for you!

:So Matt, you are saying you save in mortgage taxes so mat as well buy.