If your goal is financial freedom you need an income that meets four requirements:Rent increases faster than inflation: Only if rents increase faster than inflation will you have sufficient dollars to pay inflated prices in the future.Sufficient to replace your current income: You must have sufficient income to replace your current income.Lifelong income: It must continue throughout your life.Low operating costs: Every dollar you lose to operating costs is a dollar less for you to live on.Rents Increase Faster Than InflationWe live on buying power, not a fixed number of dollars.

Inspiring to see others take control of their financial freedom. 

Just ask anyone who has been at it for a few years, or follow these forums and read all the threads like this one where an OOS investor in a “cheap” market realizes they’re losing money instead of reaching financial freedom through cash flow.

Your applauding those ignoring any/all of the thinking, just blindly throwing out an action, which FYI can set a precedence that can than get used step by step to further controls, lesson freedoms etc.. 

I have excellent role-models in my own family of first-generation immigrants who have invested in RE decades ago and now enjoy total financial freedom before retirement.

We're in it for the long haul and hope to build generational wealth and financial freedom for our family through real estate. 

3-6 months after my first house hack I plan to look at other properties to invest into, preferably out of state or near colleges in OH.I’ve always been intrigued with real estate and how someone can gain so much financial freedom and time with owning properties.

Another thing I think that is worth noting is for people who don't have much of a net worth or much opportunity taking a calculated risk in real estate can be a great way to bring some freedom to your life down the road. 

I myself am banking on Ben Leybovich Cash Flow Freedom course and Brandon Turner and Josh Dorkin's "The Book on Investing in Real Estate with No (and Low) Money Down: Real Life Strategies for Investing in Real Estate Using Other People's Money" book for my guidance.

That is not the path to wealth or time freedom.