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Buying a property is not a simple thing. It involves a lot of emotional ups and downs.
I was thinking to get an investment house awhile ago and started searching, but now I am backing off. I realized that it is not easy to be a landlord. Life is too short to deal with the crap. Even if you make tons of money, so what? Is it worth going through all the stress and hassles? Eventually everbody will go to the same destination without taking anything with you. Take it easy and enjoy life as much as you can now.[/quote]

Absolutely. My wife and I helped manage rentals for my dad way back when, and one thing we walked away with: we never want to own a rental.

There are easier ways to make money, and we value our free time too much to be tied to emergency rental phone calls, flakey dishonest people, and flagrant abuse of property.

We take better care of stuff we borrow than most people do of the stuff they own. We’d go crazy seeing what someone did to our rental. Better to avoid the headache.