It's like they got their golden ticket so now it is time to go live and relax in a small vacation town. 

Now, if you have other golden nuggets overturning the common misconceptions, please don't hold back.

This is a golden nugget!

If you didn't you couldn't place the 'golden arches' on property. 

@Steve Vaughan This is golden, appreciate the knowledge sharing here.

I'm nervous because I've never had a business before and I still have a full-time job as a cloud solutions architect, which I'm really passionate about - so hopefully it won't be my golden handcuffs that may prevent me to thrive as an investor and  I'm excited because of all the benefits and freedoms being a business owner offers, one of which is to connect and collaborate with forums like this and people like all of you, where I can both learn from and hopefully share later as I develop more experience. :-)

Losing sleep and the associated stress could negatively impact your personal and professional life… which could REALLY hurt your finances even more.One of my golden rules is put your personal (physical, mental, emotional) health first.

If you can consistently source good deals, your numbers are accurate, and you're straightforward with people, you're absolutely golden. 

For passive, the stock market is better than OOS, But active investment works or using RE as saving mechanism is absolute golden tool.

Also Golden triangle guys investor group on Meetup, they meet at sertinos in the best buy parking lot. seems like a lot of people get their real estate license from champion