I can see where he's coming from, not having much time for yourself sucks, I currently work all week and then work at home every weekend, it's tiring. But in 3-4 months I should be mainly done and be able to rent out my 2nd house, then have more free time. I would take some weekends off, but every month the house isn't rented out is a month I'm losing money. If it were renovations on the house I'm living in, I'd spend less time on it. I'm also thinking of scaling back my 401k, I have it set to max out right around the end of the year currently, which would be fine, except when I'm doing things like spending $2,000 on a water hookup, $750 on sewer hookup, $2,500 on electric hookup, $400 for siding, etc. etc. etc. so many things adding up that I'm spending on the house is making it difficult to save as much as I'd like to.