@Justin O'Malley I used the illustration of two years ago v today to demonstrate just how quickly time passes us by!

As the graphs illustrate, purchasing power will come down, and in order to balance the market, home prices should flatten or reduce accordingly as supply and demand work their magic.

He writes very illustratively and talks about everything you need to know to get into rental property investing: from how to choose and analyze a deal to how to deal with tenants once you have them.

Happy wife, happy life.Maybe go for light fixers and avoid the more in-depth rehabs (I think other people illustrated this point suggesting REITs or PML). 

Can someone take me through an illustrative example? 

good to go.Are there even better options, absolutely .... this was just to illustrate my point and something quick/easy to find.

See link below if interested - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/djia.aspComparing this index with the hourly wages earned over a time frame is a poor comparison to illustrate that investing in stocks is worse than RE.

Once you illustrate the tax-benefits of savings along with the ability to invest in an asset class they fully understand, you truly become an advisor and not just a stock salesperson. 

It gets difficult to illustrate that without running a 10-year proforma analysis or thereabouts, but again, the net result to the IRA is positive. 

It's a little light on illustrations, but it tells you how to wire up an entire house, correctly.