You don't have automatic payments...
This x 10000
You have to automate your life brehs and and brehettes.
The way I have it now is I have 2 checking accounts and a saving account with my primary bank.
1 checking account is for bill pay only
1 checking account is for whatever (food, plane tickets, bottles, entertainment)
So a check comes in
.5 automatically goes to bill pay account
.2 automatically goes into savings
.3 automatically goes into catchall
I have it set up so all my bills automatically get paid out of my bill pay account on their respective dates and I also get a warning if it falls below a certain amount.
I pay gas on a separate credit card so that I can build credit and this automatically gets paid from the bill pay account every cycle.
My tenant pays his rent right into that account and the mortgage and the condo fee automatically come out of there as well.
Also, whenever my catch all account gets to a certain amount, right now, (anything over 3.5k), I transfer the excess into savings account, and the savings account money is also further diversified into different funds and investments.
I can't afford to miss a payment cause I wasn't paying attention. I'm trying to come up on a 4 unit or single family near Providence Hospital/Brookland by the end of 2018 to get that residual flowing.
Plus, I've seen how people take hits, whether credit, late fees, loss of insurance or benefits, etc all because they couldn't track everything. It's 100x better to automate your life. GTD+Evernote Secret Weapon style.