Maybe it’s because when I was a kid I used to buy baseball cards and look up the value.

I think of it like baseball.

The east side of Montgomery is really starting to pick up.Montgomery also has a minor league baseball team (Montgomery Biscuits) and they built a stadium in downtown near the look out over the river, near Maxwell AFB.

I do think Florida has some great opportunities, but we are buying in cash at this time, and most properties there are out of our league!

Not to take away from anyones great work in REI....it is just an Ivy League academically proven fact stocks beat rei on average.

They think they can buy that diamond in the rough for a fraction of the cost (all they have) and with a little magic, flip the house and play up a few leagues. 

That's a whole different league.

Looking at the entire investment, the marginal difference in 0.8% vs 1.0% is single-A ball vs big leagues in terms of wealth creation over a long hold period. 

I'm a Texas Mom, my boy plays baseball, I don't care about canned dip ...let me clarify chewed dip... a used pregnancy test on the floor, the sticky obviously dirty floor.

One of the ones on the list was 'because you're too far for me to easily show up at your house around midnight with a baseball bat to collect my money if I think you've abused it'.