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

Financial freedom requires maintaining your lifestyle for life.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

I'm only here for the next 1 to 1 1/2 years; until we move on to our next investment asset and life style. 

Thanks to the eduction we've received at BP, my husband and I have made massive changes to our lifestyle recently, and begun moving our six figure savings from places it was doing us no good, and into smart real estate investments.