Real Estate or ART or Jewelry or your kids baseball card collection.The principles apply to whatever you are buying. 

Question..... Does anybody know if a bank will qualify a sponsor that has the net worth but does not have a schedule of real estate?  I'm wondering if I could use a family member with a high net worth on my larger mul...

Once I hit that goal I'll take stock of how much I like scaling real estate vs. how much I dislike my job, and make a call on retiring vs continuing to scale.Your goal is both hard and very realistic.

can anyone help with this one. 3m ARV SFR, principle still in the house and has not made a payment in 7 years.

I guess that is why so many people buy lottery tickets, to have a little nicer car to drive to work....I grew up watching my mom carefully invest in stocks that she held for decades and built a nice portfolio with, I could never understand people who would get a bonus and spend it rather then invest it.  

Based on your age & needs, you could consider a variable annuity (stock market) vs a fixed or deferred annuity (more like a long term CD). 

I think this principle applies to everything in life.

Stocks are likely overvalued right now.

The chances of you taking $150,000 and turning it into enough passive income to be able to live are as likely as you taking $150,000 and putting it in the stock market and living off the principle. 

Indeed, the FAIR ordinance is anything but fair to non-corporate landlords, seemingly punished for investing in rental houses to generate income as an alternative to stocks and bonds.A handful of opportunists likely could learn to exploit these new rules, preying on otherwise law-abiding landlords to obtain legalized shake-down payments.