Additionally, it is clear that with intelligent decision making there is plenty of money to be made and still engage professional contractors.

If you're equipped and intelligent enough to get to this stage in life, you will not be amused by the lack of activity in true retirement.

That's what we care about, there's going to be an artificial floor.

Sure, depends on a lot of other factors.If you haven't learned by now cash flow was just the outlier during low rate(artificial) times, the true value is in the parcel of land. 

I cannot speak intelligently about Detroit, but I know Columbus Ohio has been great to me.

@Jay Hinrichs I also think that the number of posts can be misleading in that some people post a bunch of nonsense and can get a high number of posts just because they have the intelligence enough to click the “post reply” button. 

Paying down a rental property loan reduces actual income through the purchase of artificial income. 

No offense to the brokers out there, but if you can be a lawyer or a doctor while you intelligently invest, and scale, isn't that even better goal? 

So just go about it intelligently in case your tenant later claims discrimination because it was an act of domestic violence.

My daughter is very intelligent and has a burning desire to move into this type of business and I am blown away with the time and effort she has invested and the amount of information she has already learned.