Here is how you do it:Example: you want to be a millionaire by the time you are 50Write your goal down (I want to be a millionaire by the time I'm 50)Break it down into achievable milestones (say you are 30 now, so you have 20 years, 80 quarters, 40 half years, or 1,040 weeks)Break it down into daily/weekly action items (1,040 weeks divided by 1M = $962)Now, $962 a week doesn't sound that difficult now does it?  

Your expectation of no appreciation of rents or prices in the next 12 months or so seems pretty consistent with where the graph is going.

Surpassed a noteworthy milestone this week, over $1 billion in group net worth.Took a deep look into Golden Pacific' s Fund on CrowdStreet.  

You start with the goals, and reverse engineer the plan, laying out a series of achievable milestones (financial)...then turn around a follow the breadcrumbs.OK.  

I would encourage you to keep it up and enjoy the milestones along the way! 

All of those lovely graphs, help your decision to invest $500k right now - how?

I envision you punch in X for your passive income goal, then plug in your properties with the loan maturity date, Piti separated ( as you'll still have Iti once each loan is paid) and you'd see a dated graph of what your income would be at each data point.

I can set milestones and mark when they are achieved, so the homebuyer knows what is going on as transparently as possible.With the milestones, part of me went to video games.

Here's a graph to illustrate this point:Think of Stage 1 being 2004-2006 at the previous peak.

Understand this, and you will never need new funds.3 - The difference between a plan, goal, milestone, steps, and how they all go together to form a REI Business plan.