I know we're on BP and real estate is the sexy thing to do, but at the end of the day, it's just another investment strategy. 

It's not sexy or fun like they make it out to be.

Budgets Are Sexy is great for ideas on getting your financial house in order, Afford Anything is written by a blogger who used real estate to retire early and travel the world and has been a guest on the BP podcast, Mr.

It is not sexy and exciting but it is getting me started fairly conservatively until I am ready to do more aggressive or risky plays.

But, for a decade @Joshua Dorkin did what needed to be done, and much of it wasn't sexy...When that $35,000 Model III comes out, it'll be a vertical parabolic movement in market share for Tesla.

The sexy areas are a gamble on appreciation, I'd look for cash flow.I'm in Houston and can't touch anything within a 5 mile radius of my house where rent numbers work.

I have two (teens now).

I know it's not very sexy, but it works

Especially if interest rates went back up to those mid-teens levels that I hear they were at in the 80's when I was just a kid.Or, maybe there is still room for financing rental properties, and the fact that an interest rate jumps over a period of time from 4% to 8% or whatever, is countered by the fact that the price has dropped 30%, or 50%, and you just have to put a little more down up front, and there is more incentive to pay it off quicker rather than go get property number two.I'd love to hear what some people think.

Purchasing a home is typically seen as a longer term time investment and a commitment to a location, especially by young 18,19 year old fresh military personnel (most teens in general), and renting is much easier to up and out if you were to get orders and have to leave the Fayetteville area.