MileIQ is cool but costs $59.99/year and works great with a website login to manage miles.  

Once you hit millionaire status in 5-10 years (average, I think, for folks who commit everything to the goal) you can always just buy another cool house for yourself. 

I live in Franklin and it is 10 minutes to Cool Springs (mall and commercial area with every store imaginable) and you are just 30 minutes from Downtown which is not so much shopping, but great restaurants and a lot of events.

Just met some really cool people last night at the Meet Up!

Very cool city.

I'll you what I learned in NJ and you tell me info from NY, it'll be cool to see how the too markets are.

There are so many cool and exciting things going on.For starters, you have the free informative forums to read and learn about real estate, as well as all of the podcast episodes like @Tom Kuhen said.

As we are anticipating an eventual  "cooling off" period, my wife and I are well capitialized enough to take advantage of better deals.

Very cool.

Hi Sam,I'm in the same boat as you....that is, learning, reading, listening all that I can (for free, which is cool), but still haven't made my first purchase other than the house I currently own and live in (i.e. not an actual investment property).I live in Jacksonville and have been scouring the market this summer, drove by some properties today in fact (they weren't what I was looking for, though).I'll say that it's drying up a bit, but I don't mean to dissuade you at all, in fact I think there are still tons of great deals out there (here), but the time is now.