They can all swallow the pill of having a primary home and a second house (vacation home/seasonal residence) as a mental jump, but beyond that gets tricky, so I tend to just keep the idea to that level.

Hahaha:)  One thing I would have done differently is swallow my pride and somehow find a mentor that I respected and liked right from the start. 

License process can be lengthy so swallowing carrying costs could be heavy. 

I don't want to wait because right now great deals are hard to find and are getting swallowed up right away so you can't wait on those.

There is a fee attached for these services, and you need to swallow it in order to do a thorough background check.  

Hope this guides you on the right path and stop swallowing what all the gurus and youtube influencers tell you!

Give it 10 yrs, it will probably become an obvious look-back, but today, in the last hours of the party, lot's of denial because it's a hard pill to swallow for many.  

That basically swallow the difference between the price you were will to accept and the price you laughed at.What is "fair" in terms of rent is what the market will bear, right?  

It's a tough pill to swallow. 

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.