Building up capital is the key.When me and the wife hit $10M a few years back we celebrated by purchasing a 2 year old Honda Passport with 25,000 miles.  

Maybe this is just a cultural thing, but I personally find your reference to a "persons handler" to be a little rough and I'm as fiscally as conservative as they come.  

This guy that your celebrating and telling newbies to adore...he’s a fake.   

Let's go celebrate your success and start your journey on the right foot. :)

We were in it for the longterm though and, while everyone else was whining about their losses, we celebrated the fact that, due to the lower assessed values, our property taxes went down.

Or maybe there's a new paradigm/cultural shift where people have to be more independent thinkers because there are soooo many influencers around?

You mentioned wanting to use the house yourself, this becomes a huge problem if you want to actually make any moneyAfter spending way too much time investigating a lot of options in the northern half of the US,  I switched gears and now I buy in the Southern half of the US for 3 reasons:1) you get much higher year-round occupancy rates in the South & it’s simply tough to earn a good ROI in the North if your place sits vacant for a big chunk of the year2) Culturally, the Southern half of the US seems to be a lot more accepting of STRs regulation-wise.

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It is not too far to commute if you want based on the culture here in AZ, but there are employment opportunities in the San Tan area without having to commute.