And if all your assets were owned free and clear, perhaps you would not need as many to sustain the life style that you have grown accustom to. 10 really good free and clear properties, the best of the best might be better than 20 properties, some good, some bad but all with mortgages.

He has grown up and making better decisions he's got a good civil service job so I doubt he's giving up his career  now.Now what you said @Simon Campbell is the plan I had in mind.

Using what I described above, it has grown close to 100 rental units, well beyond 120K of cash flow, over $10M in assets, and still growing.

Hello Aaron Lovett Thanks for welcoming me to the BP community, I do believe that Chattanooga is growing, in the last 4 years I've seen new roads being built and new companies moving here also the population has grown ridiculously I can tell the traffic wasn't this bad 4 years ago.

He has taken good care of our family all these years (4 sons all grown and flown the coop now and I was blessed to be a stay at home mom for them).  

One thing I have learned is if anyone tells you they bought their first one and it worked out perfect from the get go and everything has been roses since then I would probably run because odds are they are yanking your chain.

I have grown to seven properties within the last three years but just now have the time to get it all right after military retirement.

I was excited to see lots of granite and tile.Upon contacting the owner via the cell number his grown kid gave me he tells me that he paid the bank and it was not supposed to go through the sale so lines must have gotten crossed somewhere.  

She's grown up in it.

One of the interesting things about Cleveland is that the Downtown population of young professionals has grown relatively rapidly.