Full Time Job, Children, and Spouse. What next?

[Weldon Malbrough]

Looking towards the future I decided about a year ago that real estate investing (REI) would be my chosen career path after I retire from the military. Through my learning process I have been educating my wife with everything I've been learning as well. She openly states that she is supportive and willing to make our first REI purchase as soon as I find out where my next duty assignment will be (will find out within the next 60 days). However, when discussing saving seed money/down payments with her she starts to become a little defensive about our current position. We are both employed with decent income and have four children. Through the last few months and weeks I have shared many success stories with her from the podcasts, but her major concern that she has voiced with me is that to the best of our knowledge, none of the cases we've seen so far have had large families upon starting in REI. I know there have to be plenty of success stories out there, but haven't seen any that I could bring to her attention. Please, if you fit this category and don't mind sharing you story so I can use it as an example to help put her at ease I would be grateful.

Thanks,

Weldon