College started covid impacted (first 2 years) but also his motivation was not good. 3rd year motivation improved (still not to the child that excelled at virtually everything until 12th grade) but then the TA strike impacted his classes.  

@David Friedman thanks for bringing up the point about tenant strikes.

(d) If you strike out on landing any on-market deals, you can search for off-market deals.

That strikes me as the biggest to FIRE.

Just in reading your comments, you strike me as someone who will find a way to be successful regardless of whats changing.

You want to be opportunistic and wait for the right deal and be ready to strike when the time or right.

What a lot of these guys/girls are saying is true of Baltimore’s that’s why I’ve been waiting to strike my first deal.

As for the job, you strike me as the exception rather than the rule and/or someone who truly loves what they are doing.

Everyone wants to stick with the traditional pathways to wealth, which I completely understand, but I think it’s really important for us all to know that technology has completely changed everything about the entire world in the last 5 to 10 years, and the early adopters of that technology are going to be the ones that strike fast while the iron is hot. 

Which doesn't strike me as overly impressive.