If you have a high rent and no rent control, without knowing anything else about your financial situation, lifestyle etc. 

We might consider the lifestyle aspect if it's a place where we want to go back regularly.Speaking of Mexican cartels, I've been going to Mexico for more than 20 years, know a huge number of people who invest and work in real estate across the country and I've never heard about cartels taking over properties.

Do the math with local rents and call different property managers to determine if the numbers work then consider your lifestyle and college schedule.

Could you have done better elsewhere - of course - but at the end of the day all that matters is are youLiving the lifestyle you wanted to live

Financial freedom requires maintaining your lifestyle for life.

Love this business and the ample opportunities for a better lifestyle if provides.

Truly depends on your lifestyle and the amount of time you want to spend on real estate.

Ultimately I think a lot of us are in real estate because we have found a way to make real estate fit our lifestyle and goals for the long term.

If the answer to the last question is because they would rather stay at home and don't want to get a job or they have a job, but want to 'enjoy' their lifestyle and not be 'burdened' by bills, then it is time for them to grow up and move out.

When you tell these people that it often takes more than a decade before the investing makes things like that possible, they go looking elsewhere for advice, until they find someone who's willing to sell them what they want to hear.Building relationships, improving your lifestyle, relieving chronic anxiety, creating strong friendships, building bonds with family, work-life balance, delayed gratification, risk-reward management, lifelong financial freedom, all the really good things about REI are often suffocated under the overwhelming need to GENERATE INCOME TO QUIT MY HATEFUL JOB.What's the best thing about investing for me?