Cara,Thanks for your response, and I think that your point about timing and availability of information is well taken, but I find it hard to believe that the concepts of leverage and investing and rental properties were completely foreign to the populous in the 90's. 

Also she picked the car, as she didn't want a minivan.

While not all of them pertain to what I'm interested in, all have had some type of usefulness (is that a  word)  I'm on the road a lot and will listen to them in the car.  As

It is absurd that Fannie considers transfers of funds within a marriage to be a "gift," but alas I am not the dictator of the universe and cannot change this at present.Solution: Just what @Cara Lonsdale said, have both names on the accounts even if it's understood between the two of you that this one is "mine" and this one is "yours."

@Cara Lonsdale  thanks for the mention.  

Originally posted by @Cara Lonsdale:Welcome. 

I said electric car. As

I've decided how I want to get my foot in the door of financial freedom and this is it.2) Cut back on spending money on liabilities aka mostly my car. As

Originally posted by @Cara Lonsdale:Originally posted by @Aaron Hunt:Originally posted by @Cara Lonsdale:In my market (Phx/Scottsdale), your mortgage payment is usually less than a rental payment, so it doesn't make sense as an investor to rent vs buy. 

Originally posted by @Cara Murray:@Jay Hinrichs- Don't pick on us too much, I think it only got to a high of 102 degrees in the last week of May. - A Red Bluff area girl investor U know what I mean it can get wicked hot there  110 to 116 not uncommon at all..