For my birthday and other holidays if I asked for 5 shares of Disney (it was sub $35 back then) and my father would double it since I was making the right decision.When I was in college I loved the idea of teaching so I took a course called Intro to Education.

Don't put up artwork of ponies, kittens or flowers. 

Have you been to a birthday party for a 3-4 year old?  

No landlord to tell you when to move out of your house, or if you can paint the walls, or if you can have a dogs, or if you can plant new flowers.

I bought my friend who was skeptical about REI a Monopoly board game for his last birthday.

Below is a summary of my personal finance situation today as I'm nearing my 26th birthday.  

Multiple neighborhoods being built, apartment complex, etc.I apologize for any grammatical errors, I'm at a 3 year olds birthday party and using my IPhone.

I started my first job a month before my 15th birthday, making $10/hour as a maintenance assistant at a small dentistry 300 feet behind my house.

If they ask if they can plant flowers, they won't.

If you go OOS, you have a lot of risk, earning say only a hundred a door, or your 20% gets wiped out when the market dips, or when a $1,000 repair will eat all your profit for the whole year -- meaning you are working for free for your property and only gain the equity/principal payments, or you have to fly there to take control over it, or signing a contract that has flowers that bloom gold that never really happens.