Setting artificial goals based on the number of doors a person owns is a recipe for unfulfillment.  

We try to mend it with either stitches, medicine, or bandages, in an attempt to make it heal so it'll go away.  

IT, engineering, medicine) are carrying up the ROI to that high because those degrees may have an ROI of 60-70-80% or higher.

It is a drug.It has many medicinal values, but to each their own. 

Another constant issue that creates more demand is low inventory, artificially and temporarily raising prices too.  

His only benefit was from equity paydown(paying the mortgage) his advice was count on 50%, obviously heavily influenced by tenant turnover.On current strategy, the world is yield starved with low rates of return on everything, so many are accepting formally unthinkable returns as "better than money in the bank"I would be firmly in the "time to re-strategize" camp, and think the artificially low interest rates will cause a lot of malinvestment as financial engineering usually does.7.5% should be doable with multifamily or syndicationAlthough there seems to be no end to those who will overpay, perhaps not understanding actual costs or investing for other reasons(besides cashflow) on the commercial side.

I doubt I could ever stop practicing veterinary medicine completely.

I'm not convinced that anyone getting a degree outside of a professional field (medicine, law, etc.) are any more hireable than someone with drive.

Unless you plan to get a degree in medicine, law, engineering or some other "professional" degree it's my opinion that college is as much, if not more, about the experience then the actual physical degree.

Where the organic housing inventory went artificially higher due to non locals buying rentals in markets where the need for more rental inventory was not organically needed.