Both are exactly as wealthy as they were at the start of the wait.

I have seen too many people that have become wealthy owning real estate to advise selling and moving to renting.

People get wealthy investing in real estate in every market and you are going to pay uncle sam one way or another. 

It builds useful skills, teaches you about home ownership (so you learn what clients look at), and generates wealth. I

(I received nothing monetarily for that plug for his book right there) LOL I also have a good friend that is very wealthy and flips properties from time to time, he has one rental through them that he allows them to manage and he spoke very highly of them!

I have a look back and see the details how you got so wealthy!

Wichita cares about it's future and what it looks like and has a police dept that will get creative to solve problems such as the homeless and panhandlers -- Topeka/Shawnee county - not so much - they just care about the wealthy zip code and a several block radius around dt where the capital building is. 

Everyone of these areas will have places where the wealthy live, places where the middle class live and places where the poor live.

But almost all successful wealthy people have RE.

My goal is to start building passive income and hope to retire sooner and long term goal to develop generational wealth. I