You can blend the two and live in the rental so paying off "your home" would be in fact be a multi unit building.

if you're buying only what happens to be easily available you're fighting with the masses for the low hanging fruit.

You will succeed and have a plenty fruitful investing business with only consistency and systematic processes, not by denying yourself a house to play, dream, create, make love, and cultivate ritualistic health and safety.

With rates as low as they are finance it, let your money grow in an investment account and enjoy the fruits of your labor.Then go buy some property ;)

There are great wineries, fresh fruit is bountiful, and beautiful lakes.

Having multiple properties with your name on it make you super easy low hanging fruit for lawyers.

We do not carry balances on high interest cards (we may do that on zero interest cards for short time periods to smooth out cash flow (like when we bought new appliances for our house) if we have the savings to pay off the balance).We're not rolling in it Scrooge McDuck style by any means, but we are at a place now in our 40's where we are beginning to enjoy the fruits of our labor and sacrifices made in our 30's.

However, I dollar cost average with each new property and my blended basis is good.  

., target retirement date) that provides a blend of stock and bond returns.

If bandit signs did not work, there would be no bandit signs.Some of the other popular/fruitful means of locating motivated sellers include direct mail (there are numerous strategies here with lists and etc), driving for dollars, door knocking, networking etc.Do some learning and find the model that fits you.