99% of them worked a boring job and grinded out the side hustle (content creation, building brands, selling merch) until the side hustle out weighed the regular job.You achieved success already.

I like Sisters too (almost moved there instead of Bend) but it seems a lot more tourism dependent and less diversified so I went where the bulk of the new job creation is happening.

The city is thriving and attracting numerous major companies, resulting in the creation of thousands of job opportunities in the coming months and years.

Usually also don't factor in the wealth creation parts of it too when they use most calculators.

After my first rental appreciated a bit I saw how powerful that could be for wealth creation.

Overall economic conditions in the Austin metro (job creation, corporate investment, unemployment, etc.) still look very robust and promising for this decade and beyond.

It would create immediate equity and eventually rents would catch up but that could be a few years.With the new seasoning rules you have to wait 12 months from creation of your last mortgage to refinance and pull cash out.

In hindsight I lost out on a lot of wealth creation by insisting on all-cash, as my portfolio grew a lot slower than it could have grown had I been more open to using debt (wisely).

In Houston we have the #1 market for job creation in the US, Low inventory and one of the highest concentrations of migration out of most US cities. 

Maybe I'll start a new thread on this [real estate] site to discuss creationism vs evolution.Either way, I haven't read it but I will pick it up.