Your 20s are for taking career risks, delaying gratification, and thinking long term.

Keep the old ones for your own personal gratification.

Think long term, delay gratification, and buy the property you want to own the most 10 years from now.

People ask me all the time what I did at the beginning to be so successful and while I rattle off the usual stuff (reinvested all my money back into the business, delayed gratification, etc), it's really occurred to me again that before I bought a single house I thought about who I wanted to have as tenants, and tailored my purchases to that demographic.

There appear to be a lot of assumptions that could affect your timing, so you may have some delayed gratification depending on how long each step takes.

Delayed gratification is good.  

If they are all the same race, same sexual orientation, family situation, handicapped or not, etc etc you’d probably be fine.

Short-term sacrifices and delaying gratification will bring you abundance later in life.Definitely take advantage of your first-time home buying benefits and consider house hacking a duplex or 4-plex.

Can you talk about delayed gratification?!

Live below your means increase your disposable income as much as possible and invest it while delaying gratification for as long as possible.