After 4+ years  of riding up & dwn free funnel opt ins,   only to end up on phone with clueLESS, gate keepers that know less about what they are selling than I did when I started...     

Not to beat a dead horse, but sounds like your CPA isn't correct.

I found that my first one was the hardest and then things slowly got easier and easier (kind of like riding a bike).  

That’s my plan, to ride out my current job til closure (1-2 years) while buying properties and growing my portfolio.

There is a carriage house exception but that has to actually be an old carriage house for horses, and from what I understand this rarely applies.

All this makes me think I should just ride it out longer.

It's been a wild ride!

I believe you can still do well here, especially cash flow compared to LTR's, but there is a lot more work to it so you have to up for the ride.  

Works nearly every time.We had a group of older ladies come and ride the bike trail.

I would ride on my golf cart to the houses being built on the weekends just for fun.