Opportunities to send referrals to people you know should be something you consciously seek out.

Could you retire on $4,500 per month or $6,000 per month - that depends on your lifestyle.

Great stuff.I like the lifestyle in Denver.

I just wanted to get an idea from some other people as to how open the communication is within your neighborhood and hoa.I live in a community with 382 people and my hoa actually makes a conscious effort to limit the correspondance to the community.

Decide for yourself what kind of lifestyle it is you want to lead and what style of investing will serve you the best.

for me, Financial independence is a term which refers to having enough money and/or other assets in such an amount that any additional income is not required to maintain a desired lifestyle.

Here's a visual. http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/2005/05/26/cx_sc_0527homeslide_10.html?

In my experience when meters have been installed the master water and sewer bill is reduced by 30-40% as your residents become conscious about the amount of water going through the faucets.

Thanks Mike appreciate it, i've been so convinced that having a 9-5 job, regardless of the wage, will support the lifestyle i want in the future and i won't settle for that.Also what i see are investors, who complain and say they wished they got into investing a lot earlier.But, i do have to say that i have that little itty bit of doubt.

I also was the Director of Sales and Marketing for a national lifestyle publication and under my direction their annual revenue went from $750k to $1.6M in 3 years.