Wound love to hear about the portfolio more and what it took to achieve...I wish you success and I hope to meet soon, trying to piece together our own little meet up in the area...

Worthwhile, or still healing from the wounds?

My stepson is a medically retired Wounded Warrior Marine.  

We wound up doing that with our house without knowing that was what we would wind up doing.

In the one friend with 1 rental property and his own business in example mentioned with a CPA he wound up getting audited and having to pay penalties and back taxes.

It's anyone's guess but time heals a lot of wounds in buying RE...I bought my first 'flip' in March of 2008 and rode the value down over $150K, lost easily $10K on rent learning to be a LL and eventually sold that home around 10 years later for just about what I originally purchased it for.

First brokers would not show me deals; then I went into contract on some bad deals out of desperation, which then did not close and I wound up losing a lot of money; and then I switched markets at was at zero again, with brokers not showing me deals.I eventually hit upon strategies to get me over the hump, but getting started was hard.What has been your biggest obstacle?  

I wound add Avery's book to this. 

It will happen: "Time wounds all heels.

So while I kicked my (self inflicted) wounds I studied ecom, and later DTC business.