It can lead to other health problems like heart attacks, strokes, etc....which coincidentally all happened to be a cause of death for many of my older relatives, so needless to say I made a point take the advice to do everything necessary to treat it. 

Different strokes for different folks.My goal to give up my regular job? 

That's getting harder to do, as the price of used cars have really become obscene - thus, I'm up to 151k on my 2004 Titan, which is starting to develop the rash of 150k mile issues, but replacing it will be expensive enough that it offends my sense of frugality, despite the fact that I can afford to just stroke a check. 

Different strokes.

It's like saying stroke and heart related diseases causes 10x death annually than car accidents.

It's not just about the people with the disease - it's being able to absorb all the other stuff that goes on in normal life at the same time, like heart attacks, strokes, etc.

In some areas markets could suffer, however, some markets would go on as normal even hitting new highs.To paint the entire real estate market with one broad brush stroke doesn't make sense to me.One thing that is for sure is to keep an eye out on government policies towards landlords.

Everyone else is just stroking themselves and everyone else, as George Carlin would have said. 

Different strokes for different folks...

So, the only downside is I don't get to stroke my own ego by going around bragging to my buddies about owning 100+ units; I don't need to stroke my own ego, and I don't want nor do I need that many units to meet my goals.