Real estate might give us an excuse to get out more often.

You graciously excuse the late fee for five days.

If she isn't using this as a excuse to break her lease she is crazy.

For example I have a condo in Old Town valued at 340k and annual tax bill only $3100- bear in mind I have appealed taxes every year since purchase in 2003.Resources such as www.Turboappeal.com can help offset anticipated/inevitable tax increases, but if you look hard enough you will always find a reason NOT to do a deal.To politely paraphrase a quote from the CME trading floor, excuses are like our rear ends, we all have them, and they all stink!

Don't let fear or excuses shut you down.

IF you are willing and able to invest the years of time, effort, and money and IF you are able to perfect your systems and get a good team in place, then at that point it can be profitable and passive, but understand that those are a LOT of IFs ... you need to go in with eyes wide open to this fact, and not expecting it to be like buying a stock or a bond ... and no, buying turnkey does not excuse you from the necessity to do this, because the turnkey company's systems are optimized to maximize THEIR profit, and not necessarily YOURS.

excuse the newbie question

But you've got way too many excuses!!!

Please excuse the poor proof read.

They could pick any excuse or none at all, but to say that it is because of the landlord living on site and saying that to the landlord is strange.