You are going to be great through the highs of the next few years after this year.

I see two high end homes for rent, 50k, 70k, 210k per month..

The PMC I left to start my own PMC had at least 2 "preferred contractors" related to key players in the office so high rates and poor service fell on deaf ears. 

We don't pay vendors by credit card or cashapp because it is far too hard to keep the accounting straight with a high volume of transactions to do that. 

While you certainly can (subject to the contribution limits), your ability to make deductible contributions to an IRA is limited if your AGI is too high.

Use caution when borrowing against your stock portfolio, especially if it's a high volatility portfolio comprised of individual companies.

Buy low sell high..

While I don't object to spending money to do one's due diligence, I don't know if $500 is called for when you can get very high quality syndication groups/meetups/information for free.

They also have calculators to analyze deals, and I highly recommend you start this as soon as possible, even if you are not ready to buy.

Sure, mortgage insurance eats into your cash flow a little bit if you're putting less than 20% down but in the scheme of things it's really not that much.Also, you won't have 20% equity in your property in a year assuming you put 10% down unless you are forcing appreciation or you somehow get some high market appreciation.