While this is a great and highly motivating goal, most people are either clueless or incorrect in their belief as to what is required to obtain this “lifestyle”.Understanding of the “how to” get there is further obscured by the misleading, and often patently false “pathways” sold by real estate educational MARKETING companies as workshops, upsold to association memberships, upsold to mentorships.

I'm based in WI and there are several people from NY investing here, some successful and some not---the common thread I see from the ones that are not is that they relied on someone else for information instead of investigating, VERIFYING and doing their own due diligence. 

People start moving in with their TOH homes (back in the day when everyone could afford one) and the park starts to fill up. 

Happy to chat more or connect you with some great people in your area!

The idea of restricting what you do with your own cash, just because it was a refi, is probably unconstitutional.I know a lot of people investing in Texas from both inside and outside Texas. 

I've had people tell me not to worry about it and to just do it, and I've had other people say the bank will call the loan due.

So infilling an income gap via people who can disappear just as easily as appear seems short sighted to me. 

There isn't really a lot of people looking to rent a 3500sqft house and that may translate in longer vacancies.

Jorge, this post hits hard—raising equity is definitely a beast!

When we moved our companies to a new accounting software we looked at Quickbooks, but found its international awareness (tax rules, multi-currency, locale support, etc), project/job, and multi-company abilities to be clunky.To be fair, none of the candidates hit everything on our wishlist.We ended-up selecting MoneyWorks by Cognito and have been satisfied with it over the past three years.