I’m about to be 29 and I’m hoping this really takes effect in my life in my 40’s.

I wish you more happiness in your life sir.

Explore my personal favorites, Set For Life by Scott Trench or The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey, for invaluable financial insights.3.

Not much has changed in my life, but if I now have to finance a rental property vs primary home, my options change. 

Another idea that we have been exploring is using the cash value of whole life insurance funds for emergencies. 

However, I think some upcoming life changes may be the right opportunity for me to dip my toes in the water in real estate investing.I live in Pflugerville, TX (25 minutes from downtown Austin) and will soon be moving to Portland, OR, for my dream job.

If you buy real estate, you will spend hours and days and weeks and months of your life dealing with it… Home repairs, guests,… An investment really has to be pretty amazing to sacrifice all that time for itThe houses I own I bought many years ago at dirt cheap prices and dirt cheap mortgage rates.

I would pick a market area you like and start doing a bunch of deep dive deal analysis, but from a rental and not a life style standpoint.  

These companies, run by Kevin Bupp, Brian Spears, and Joanna Bupp, and how they buy up "mom & pop" mobile home parks, jack the rents up immediately to gain the most profit in the shortest amount of time with no care of the low income, fixed income, and elderly that were living in the mobile home parks comfortably.https://www.wivb.com/news/investigates/akron-mobile-home-residents-fight-back-against-out-of-town-owner/1779504663  That's how life works.

Makes life way easier as tenants can't go complaining to you about it as its their own responsibility.