Anyone earning passive income? How do you do it? How much are you making?

[Anonymous]

I'm the PP with the high-traffic blog. I should mention that "passive" isn't a very good definition for this. I put a lot of work into my blog in order to keep the hits coming. It's only extra/ passive income when you consider that I would be willing to do the work for free, because I like it, and because it improves my standing in my professional community.
If I ever stopped updating the blog, the hits would stop, and so would the income.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP with the high-traffic blog. I should mention that "passive" isn't a very good definition for this. I put a lot of work into my blog in order to keep the hits coming. It's only extra/ passive income when you consider that I would be willing to do the work for free, because I like it, and because it improves my standing in my professional community.
If I ever stopped updating the blog, the hits would stop, and so would the income.

Hmmm, Amalah or Jodifur? Maybe Not That You Asked? Which one are you?

[Anonymous]

Truly really "passive" income, but we own rental properties in DC and undeveloped land in another state. We were able to get an equity line on the land that we used to buy property in DC that we sold for a profit. Managing rental properties does require work upfront but once we have a good tenent, then months will go by without any problems.

[Anonymous]

Re: the rental property. I'm the PP who makes about $200 a month (plus $700 towards the principal of the loan) on the rental. We have a property management company, so we don't really do much for the place.

[Anonymous]

We make 850 a month renting out our basement. I consider it passive because our tenant is awesome and never asks for anything from us, EVER, plus it's part of our house and any repairs are house repairs we would do anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP with the high-traffic blog. I should mention that "passive" isn't a very good definition for this. I put a lot of work into my blog in order to keep the hits coming. It's only extra/ passive income when you consider that I would be willing to do the work for free, because I like it, and because it improves my standing in my professional community.
If I ever stopped updating the blog, the hits would stop, and so would the income.

Hmmm, Amalah or Jodifur? Maybe Not That You Asked? Which one are you?

No, strictly a professional thing, completely uninteresting to anyone who doesn't have a PhD in my field. I have occasionally wished for entertaining flame-fests in the comments, but it's all depressingly on-topic.

[Anonymous]

We make about $3000/month from rental income. We do put a few hours a month into it. If I hired a management company I could still count on $2K monthly (plus another $2K in principal reduction).