But the truth is, if you have your buying criteria and fiscal fundamentals down to a tee: for instance, BUY FOR CASHFLOW and set your BREAKEVEN OCCUPANCY threshold, then you should just buy Real Estate. 

I ate a lot of Ramen noodles, but not a single contractor, lender, or supplier was left holding the bag.

I've tried to eat before going to a restaurant to save money... but what ends up happening is I buy food at the restaurant because it smells so damn good, and end up bloated as hell on the couch afterwords, because I ate 2 meals lol.

Funny, we all ate rib eye cuts.

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'm setting up my first tenant on SparkRent very soon.Someone on here mentioned that tenants may have the "I couldn't get the website to work" or "the computer ate my payment" or whatever excuse for late rent.

Just kidding.I to ate government cheese and in the 80's it wasn't too bad. 

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.

And surely you wouldnt like my contract which follows Maryland law to a tee.

My next door neighbor is a PhD in infectious disease (as well as having done a Ted Talk, so he knows his stuff).