On my long drive from Kansas City to Texas, I happened to listen to a TED talk on the subject of investment in Africa, in which the speaker alluded heavily to the real estate potential in South Africa.

Second, we only ate dinner out once a week OR got take out.

Some ate in person, some are online.They are harder to invest in now than in the past. 

For instance, I ate a shrimp pasta at Applebee's in New York City for $19.

We moved in, lived in boxes for months, ate out every day & generally were unhappy.

My wife and I have only ate take-out from local restaurants when we haven't cooked at home to try to help out and it eerie to see empty restaurants and us being the only car in the parking lot at a high time... that can't be good.

With a 30-year outlook, they said that appreciation should be a bigger focus of mine than immediate cashflow, but that they're good with it if I choose Detroit at the end of the day.Then the one local investor/real estate broker that I am leaning on for advice has invested in Detroit himself but had a bad experience, as the amount of repair costs he would have to spend after each tenant moved out greatly ate into his cashflow profit from the year prior.With that said, I obviously understand that is a very, very small sample size and for every person that has a negative experience, there is one that has a positive one like yourself.

We ate there last friday and it was great.

At the same time, you indicated that you ate limited on time.

Did you ever get the old "My dog ate your check" story.