I'm planning on holding for the next 30 years until I retire. 

You could easily have 5 - 10 properties and retire financially free in 20 years.4.

I am retired military I will check with USAA!

I am currently a full time Police Officer and will be eligible for retirement in four years.

In about 2 years I will be retiring and most likely move south, out of state.

Too many people face the nightmare of running out of money during retirement, a time when they are least able to reenter the workforce.

I’m about 4 years from retirement and regretting not venturing into this world sooner.I’m currently going back and forth on whether to focus on short term rentals in Florida (Destin, PCB) or long-term single family homes in the Birmingham, Al area.

I had a retired United Pilot that after 3 months I had to ask him to move on..

During Covid, a lot of the old guard retired.

Having worked in and around real estate including loan side for both residential and smaller specialized commercial (medical), renovation and new construction/new build with a broker & brokerage founder (who has since retired) I know from him that in addition to reputable property managers, contractors and architects we had accountants including a forensic accountant on the loan side and a handful of real estate attorneys with one on retainer.