In addition to being part of BP, I recently signed up for the free Lifestyles Unlimited class, and I'm thinking about joining that organization as well, for all the contacts and educational opportunities there, too.

I would have started younger, for sure.I also would have bought and financed as many single family rentals as I could while I had a W-2 income, as it's a lot harder to get approved w/o one.Account Closed's suggestion of house hacking is good if you're OK w/ that lifestyle.  

You combat vacancy by knowing your market; targeting the correct tenant population; insuring your units solve a problem in their life / facilitate their lifestyle; providing value for the rent dollar and managing leases.  

Instead, I feel that MLMs are taking the potential entrepreneurs out of the workforce by selling them on this lazy, 'profit from a yacht' mobile luxury lifestyle.  

Due to my wife being laid off from her job we are wanting to make real estate investing a full time lifestyle.  

Hi @Ralph PereaI currently live in Riverton, Utah, and I am always intrigued by the ex-pat lifestyle.

When it became apparent that we both shared a similar lifestyle philosophy, and were going to be earning roughly the same for the foreseeable future, and wanted to buy a home and raise a family together we decided it was time to go all in and combine our accounts and its been that way for about ten years.

Depression and anxiety came about and my happy lifestyle ended.

@Ed Christina- good to still see some old school lifestyle folks still out there.  

The trick for you at this point will be avoiding "lifestyle creep" and applying as much as possible to debt paydown and savings for investment.