If you truly want to "retire" young, keep investing and living your life you'll need a ton more.

While I don’t regret anything in my life if I was to go back in time I would finish the real estate degree and go into something real estate when I graduated at 22 instead of doing it half-as**ed for years.

when you're starting out, do you need, and are you likely to get, a life changing, home run deal on your first buy?  

I would talk first to an electrician as many do fire alarm and life safety.

The tenant laws in New York make life as a property owner way harder. 

And since I would like to go back to it being a STR when some of my life calms down in a year or 2, it doesn't make tons of sense to get rid of it all and then start again!

Explore my personal favorites, Set For Life by Scott Trench or The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey, for invaluable financial insights.3.

Properties are not like stocks where After IPO the market cap is so large that that most of the life changing appreciation is gone. 

I tried changing useful life to 1 year but it doesn't change the line to show as an in year expense.

I've lived here my whole life and have really seen a dramatic change in this amazing city.