On my first deployment I went six months before I made my first phone call and ate my first meal that was hot.  

@Leon ForeeIt seems you ate safe.

It's no different than if McDonald's told us how much weight we would gain if we ate Chicken Nuggets.

I have a BIG kero bullet heater that I got off a mechanic who worked outside, he said that he'd work in a tee shirt out in the dead of winter, this thing throws so much heat.

They had nice cars and car payments, did vacations, had nice clothes and ate out all the time when they were younger. 

The other ways have been too slow for me and we've had some expenses that ate into the savings I built up, limiting the types of decent properties I could buy to... basically nothing.

My back-of-the-envelope calculations already ate up like half of it.Another poster asked about this so on the blog, so I won't belabor the point - and certainly don't want to pour cold water on your very evident enthusiasm!

I ate Ramen for 10yrs so I can eat Sushi now. 

Don’t buy the first thing you ate shown.When they found out I was a “California Investor” they initially were trying to show me SFRs going for $175K that had a gross rent of $925/mo and I was being told this is phenomenal compared to California

We ate ramen, TONS of ramen.