Build routines (no different than dieting, working out, etc.)5.

Were they dieting, weighing out food portions?

But start to get out of the SAD (sad american investment diet).Real Estate Investments: Cash flow and appreciation aside for you as a high income earner over 400K AGI its going to be more about saving taxes.

We have very little equity so we made lemonade out of lemons.

Some popular ones often mentioned as the best renters insurance companies include Lemonade, State Farm, and Allstate.

My diet went from dining out to consistent beans and lentils.

It sounds, from your post, that you are looking to turn a lemon into lemonade, but you might have sort of a decent lime in your bag.

This quitting W2 to survive on REI reminds me of the FIRE movement or Paleo diet.

At least she is sucking it up and trying to make lemonade here. 

We stopped in last 2021 to allow for a pause / stabilization and are now doing some build-to-rent.I feel this is, now, a harder market to get great cashflow, but we have seen good appreciation and good rent growth, so eventually more cashflow will come.Happy to meet up for a Diet Coke and chat.