It all boils down to the fact that it's easy to say, "This is what I believe in," but it's much harder to uphold that belief during trying situations.

Most confuse hard assets with only precious metals and jewels, the truth simply couldn't be more distant from that belief.

Call religiously every week for the next 3 months and hope they respond to you via email or phone calls. 7.

Possibly so, but in the event it does not, that places you in a desperate scenario and as an investor, that is a situation I NEVER want to be in which is why my belief is in building the buyers list first.When starting out, one of the things I would have done differently would be to concentrate more on one or two things, rather than a whole bucket of strategies.

I would hazard the belief that any intelligent life in the universe, or even within our own galaxy, is extremely distant from our planet, too far away to be any threat.This "study" simply sounds like more left-wing environmental propaganda pushing its agenda rather than true science.

My two main take aways were 1) High end buyers were pulling back a bit as prices continue to rise to points above intrinsic value and uncertainty both domestically and internationally (specifically BREXIT) seems to be growing. 2) With uncertainty from BREXIT growing and London being a hotspot for international wealthy investors we may see some of that money coming to the US markets specifically San Francisco, New York, etc.While not trying to be biased he also mentioned that wealthy buyers tend to be better educated on the economics of home buying and that is why there hasn't been a noticeable slow down in the lower end markets as inventory and interest rates remain low people feel the need to jump in now.My belief is that we will see a plateau and possible pullback in pricing over the next 12 months as common sense says prices cannot rise at this level for much longer as to become unaffordable.My questions are how are so many people affording homes at these prices when wage increases seem to still be minimal?

I'm not religious, but that "serenity" prayer is probably worth considering: give me strength to change the things that I can, courage to face which I cannot, and wisdom to know the difference.

My affiliation with this group is as a member and my personal belief is the education is worth hundreds times the admission price.

I have three options:I can sell to my tenant - most of my tenants are interested in home ownership, eventually.I can sell to an investor - I only rent M2M so I can offer a home that produces income or can be vacant in 30 days notice.I can sell to the open market - most of what I own is SFH, so I have a broad market to advertise my house...I can also sell my home below market (because my purchase price is right) to get out quickly if I need to and still make a considerable profit.Multiple properties may incur higher PROBABILITY of a bad thing happening, but it will yield you a higher PERCENTAGE of return on your investment IF you stick to your investment rules.My largest "contrary to the popular belief" is that I buy not to generate large amounts of cash flow (although each property does @Justin Fox brings up a good point that it isn't just what you have left after you pay PITI), but to keep my equity safe and building as I own and maintain the property. 

Regardless I have truck payments that I make religiously and haven't missed once, I signed up for a credit card yesterday (that I will only use for fuel and will pay back in full every month), and I called for my student loans to be put back on auto pay and after 10 months they will be back out of default and I can pay them off in full at a much smaller principal.