Your story resonates really well with me as I'm about to close on my first property in Salt Lake City (Sugar House Area).

PM me if you want list of brave investors before you now available for your consumption.

It seems they've been working on a non invasive way to monitor blood sugar levels via the iWatch.

It's a herd mentality and what propels the consumption economy. 

Their high consumption habits leave little spare money, but spending more than you make isn't the classification of middle class.

Deferred consumption --> save, invest, rinse repeat.

Consumption rate is about 5,000 acres/year.

There is no sugar coating it.As for people losing money on big multi in Texas as I have stated this is also very real but the one's I had first hand knowledge on happened back in the 90s issue was could never keep them full tons of turn over B/C land is super cheap so is building and new ones pop up and raid tenants from the old ones.But I had a friend here in Oergon buy a lower end 80 unit in Memphis against my pleading with him..

We must meet US directives to reduce energy consumption & secure minimum percentage of our power use through renewables.

My thought here is that Millennials have normalized a lifestyle of heavy consumption which is unsustainable if seeking long term wealth.I agree with many of the comments above, there is no question that owning a home is a better long term financial investment than renting.