so following @Drew Sygit's methodology of no-horse-in-this-race observations1) didn't see the 'no pants' thing coming...thats a new one for me 2) it looks like you bought at the lowest interest rate, highest part of the market cycle so you gotta own that and a chunk of this decrease is cyclical.

The training was real.. but as we know you can lead a horse to water but real estate is tough and as I state only 10 to MaYBE 20% can make it the rest just fade and or just buy rentals .. 

I think I might be trying to put the cart before the horse with attaining FIRE.

Ehhh  you can bring a horse to water...

It feels like a constant cart before the horse but I have become better at scaling over time, today own and operate 194 units mainly in the manufactured home space but we have more than a dozen single-family homes, a motel, and an apartment complex.I have myself in a CEO position but I also fill the position of sales and acquisitions.

Looking at the market data and demographics, I suspect Clayton Co. may be a bit of a dark horse county in the metro Atlanta region.

We can all sit on our high horses and say "that's not the right way" but Imagine sitting on a project for a month not being able to do absolutely anything, paying 15% interest while you wait for the city to get to you. 

They bet on the Jockey more than the Horse. 

As the old saying goes, "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink." 

PPI is the preferred measurement tracked by the Federal Reserve.But I loath merely tracking the inflation horse race like much of the media enjoys doing.