It almost feels like there is a movement encouraging it.

This quitting W2 to survive on REI reminds me of the FIRE movement or Paleo diet.

experienced investor, collaborator & urban infill development specialist joining the movement of bigger pockets to find others to collaborate & offer opportunities to

I also did the same this year and I have been learning about key metrics, different investing avenues, and educating myself on what type of returns I am looking for.In addition to investing in single family homes or a duplex or triplex and renting those out, there is a movement towards passive investing that I am seeing.

The opposite way of this plan is to get to slow-grow neighborhoods and buy 3-5-8 SFH in cash or 50% hard money in areas like Macon, GA, or Savannah GA, and do BRRRR as well and diversify with 50% long-term rentals and 50% short-term rentals But really, the main idea is to make a smarter move with fewer movements along the way and get it safe as well. 

Becaue direct ownership we could have control with fixed rate debt that's guaranteed by gov, our asset would usually flat or going up/stable, since it's controllable it's more like 'passive'. single family residential is not valued by the movement of cap rate, but it's valued by the real market supply-demand metrics.in all my direct asset everything is going up with scale of 20-40% IRR, so all these naives LP investors are just being fooled so much by the most teaching in real estate and they're not unable to decipher whether what they learnt is accurate or not. 

The FIRE movement taught me how to be frugal where it matters, credit card point hack, and other "life hacks to save money, but REI taught me to take that savings and invest it in something that would improve my life immediately through cash flow, as opposed to limiting my dreams just so I can quit my W2 and investing in things with extreme volatility and which I have little control over. 

I have heard of a movement to make the offer process more transparent, another good idea.

YES its this simple.Hey all, I see so many posts, " I am researching, " I am doing my homework" , I am trying to build my team" "Deciding on which area" So many are TRYING but never do anything, like a hamster on a wheel, A LOT of movement but staying in the same place.

@Nick Belsky and @Robin Simon are most of the loans rates starting to come down a little more with the movement in Treasuries?