Or let an AM swallow you whole like Blackstone did with Tricon. 

Well to be fair I’m not saying he shouldn’t have bought them (the coc return with leverage almost certainly outperformed an index fund, granted with a lot more headache) or even that he should have sold them a few years ago (the index fund thing makes a ton of sense & I’ve sold properties before and just eaten a small cap gains but when you keep stuff forever that hit becomes really hard to swallow) just that the type of asset you are in when you are older matters a lot more than when your 25, also 5 is hard to manage, if you have 25 rentals and your 88 your going to have a hard time regardless of if you have property management.

The galvanized pipes stopped working. 4.5K for replumbing the house (1 bathroom, kitchen, water heater and washer) plus 1K for drywall and paint...and I had just painted....Hiring contractors....without a contract that stipulates the terms of the deal.Luckily most of the mistakes I read today were 5-10K mistakes, that's easy to swallow but not ideal.

I always found that to be a very hard pill to swallow.

If you work in a huge office for a huge company, it's easy to get swallowed alive.Where I am, in NYC, some of the big firms hire literally anyone coming out of a licensing course.

Bitter pill to swallow, but we thank God we're out of there now and focused on other areas that actually cash flow.Good luck with whatever you end up doing. 

I think that is why this 97% stat is hard for most of us to swallow.

It is a hard pill to swallow that you will be hungry sometimes, you will be tired sometimes, you will live in discomfort, you will struggle and you will achieve only in adversity. 

Swallow your pride and get in the door somewhere.

Break it down into easy-to-swallow bites.Are you involved in real estate or really committed?