You slam on your brakes and skid to a stop because you almost passed a house where the lawn wasn't mowed!!!

Can of Worms once you start you will want to redo everything so put the brakes on now.Paint is the least expensive tool you have. 

when they are filled i don't worry about brake ins messing up the renovation. duplexes are for investors so having it filled is mostly  looked at as plus. cash flowing from day one.

Begging to get caught, in fact, because as he was getting the aforementioned knob-bob, his foot kept pressing on the brake pedal, lighting up his brake lights, over and over again.If you don't know the story, do a search on Divine Brown, circa 1995.

I brake down some of the deals I have done in my book The Hiden Entrepreneur Within Me that for sell on Amazon.

It can also be costly paying someone for the gas since constant braking and going with 3-point turns, u-turns, etc really does use up so much more gas than you think than driving on a highway or how most people normally would.

@Lindsay Brake thank you for that in depth post! 

I think you're pretty lucky in that, while your wife may not understand REI and doesn't care to, she also hasn't put the brakes on your ability to move forward.  

If this were a car, I'd want someone to say "Don't forget to kick the tires, look under the hood, check the speedometer, check the dipstick, drive it, see if it pulls to one side while driving, slam on the brakes at 25 miles an hour" etc. etc.

However, I think you might want to put brakes on and try to figure what your investment personality is and match that personality with the asset(s) you want to go after.