Low-maintenance rental property
Owns a small rental property that covers its mortgage plus a little extra each month.
At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
- Category
- Rentals and assetsLow confidence53% surex
- Earns from
- Rent81% surex
- Startup cost (estimate)
- Over $10k96% surex
- Time it takes (estimate)
- Hands-offLow confidence57% surex
- Where
- In personLow confidence49% surex
- Coding
- No coding needed97% surex
Source
Hacker NewsComment by mdorazio in “Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?”, April 21, 2019
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