I’ve been interested in RE investing for several years, as I’ve found that I’m good at digging up opportunities and closing, and I enjoy crunching numbers and analyzing problems.I’m interested in meeting people who have set up private money / private equity deals in the past, especially if it involved single-family residential buy-and-hold strategy.I’m also looking at pulling the trigger on the local Lifestyles Unlimited seminar, because I have a lot to learn, and also because I want access to what Lifestyles considers “best practices” in what will be my market.I’m happy to hear all sides of any idea and my hobbies include playing devil’s advocate and drumming at my local church.

Not only does it discuss the obvious- trying to get work-less lifestyle and be automated- but it also helped me change my mindset on risks and how you should use them.

My cousin just moved from DC to Houston and has been loving the the change in lifestyle and cost of living. 

However, I would like to begin my exit from the lifestyle this career demands.I currently own one property that I have lived at for two years, a one bedroom high rise just outside of the Texas Medical Center.

I’ve lost close to $600k so far in last 10 yrs due to lifestyle issues.

To those in the BP community who took the leap what have you been doing since leaving your w2 job to help supplement your lifestyle on top of your investments/flips?

(This is my second visit to Vero but husband spends a lot of time here and has good advisors re lifestyle.)

It all comes down to getting the right mix of index funds for your time horizon and risk tolerance; you don’t have to pay a financial advisor crazy amounts of money to do that; in fact you could just invest in a lifestyle fund that automatically rebalanced in the time horizon you are looking at.As for an advisor who can do both.  

The lifestyle-erica might be saying "how long are you going to wait to live how you want to live?".

Most are just okay, while a few are exceptional.You'll want to set short term and long term goals, focused on finances and also life style.