Let’s hope the baby isn’t thrown out with the bath water.  

;-)In Washington state there are guys paying child support for babies the guy before him had.

So I for one think the 30k number in 20 years is a very realistic number to have to live a very nice lifestyle as long as you have no debt or minimal debt. health insurance auto insurance TAx on your home and utls food clothing etc is going to run folks at least 5 to 7k a month.. so what great life is one going to have on 3k a month.

Besides real estate investing we are passionate about family, small farming, growing healthy foods, and building community.

Akshay,You can just start doing video's with no pants on.That's what I do to stand out hahaYou probably won't get any baby boomer clients as those folks like to judge a book by it's cover and prefer being swindled by someone wearing a suit and tie.On the other hand, you will get a lot of corky folks that "get it" and will be happy to throw some business your way.I'm very good at being professional unprofessionally hahaAll the best mate

The “headline” CPI (Consumer Price Index = inflation) for June declined 0.1% month-over-month, and the “core” CPI (excluding food & fuel) rose only 0.1% MoM.

Don't have all your food on the same plate-- meaning same agent, same PM group, same contractor, same inspector.

My only contribution as possible food for thought for you is to ask whether you have the ability to move to a less expensive area and house hack there? 

It was hard to say goodbye to my babies I started this journey back in 2006 (18 years ago) The truly sobering thing about this event is that I was able to achieve these same financial results in ONE year with my first larger commercial deal; and replace my wife's income with that deal.  

My best advice would be to calculate how much you would need to spend on food and determine how that number relates to the amount of rent you are paying.