@Caleb Kacal1) Get a college degree in business or practical stem degree2) Get into a hot and high paying industry like tech, investment banking or consulting 3) Work your tail off in that 9-5 and job hop upwards for more money 4) In the process, keep buying properties, heck, live with your parents for first 5 years if have to 5) Get 10 units by 33.

This is two-fold: on one hand he has to compete with the NYUs and Columbias who companies KNOW are solid programs so they won't even entertain coming to Rutgers to recruit, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, the Rutgers real estate program will work their tails off to get you into some of these top firms, because they want to say "an RBS Real Estate grad now works at [insert top name prestigious firm here]" on their Admissions flyers. 

I agree that positive cash flow can be a great tail wind to grow my portfolio.

Overall crime is still very high, and when we have a downturn expect some wide eyed and bushy tailed hipsters to high tail it outta there.  

The tail does not wag the dog. 

Like anything else in retail, the reputation of a product takes a long time to establish, it may not take as long to kill a reputation but many retailers ride on the coat tails of their past reputation a long time before the public realizes quality has dropped. 

I am at the tail end of a 4 unit rehab and would be needing appliances to finish it off soon. 

That seems like the tail wagging the dog to me.

In this story we have the tail end of the game.  

I bet you folks all already got there.I see the tail end of something up there, really you rent to the first qualified applicant, regardless of qualified sources of income (illegal income is not qualifying income, part time may not qualify, etc) but if you're not in the program, you don't count Sec 8 since you can't receive it.