For those of you who viewed my first rehab , https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/67/topics/115833-completed-my-first-rehabI recently closed on my second rehab!

My point view is to have enough passive equity to live comfortably, to travel, and to be a blessing to those in my life.

That's both encouraging and informative just hearing of the volume of success and in viewing it as a business in that realm of REO listing and investment.

Well, one things for sure, you can view the properties at your own discretion and not have to wait around on someone else if anything.

It can be good policy to keep the tenant but if they aren't asking for it, I'm probably not doing it until I need to or if there's an insurable loss..but that's me; Andy: In the context of a view encompassing only the immediate bottom line, your above statement fits and makes sense.

I chose the distant turnkey in a hot market and it wasn't a winning strategy.I learned my lesson and have since done well.For investors starting out, my view is that it's better to invest in a market you know extremely well.

Maybe buy a rental in U-district and offer 9 month leases.

R U Kidding me.

So u own a fully paid off pile of bricks in a shape of a house... what's so great about it?

By adjusting your point of view, you can dramatically increase your satisfaction in life while simultaneously building your REI portfolio.How many landlords have walked into their resident's places only to find 60" flat screen TVs with a really nice sound system while the landlord's old 27" CRT TV (w/ no sound system) is sitting at home?