So, should I take the usual route and go to college and study business, or accounting, or medicine, or something else I don't really care about in order to get a moderate-paying job, go out to the suburbs and get a cute little house and get a 9 to 5 job doing crap I don't care about, then come home and watch tv and go to sleep, then wake up the next morning and do it all over again?

The medicine they seller needs might not be the medicine the seller is prepared to take.Four.

I live near the VA-School of Medicine campus and my mailman tells me there are a lot FSBOs within 5 miles of me - his brothers are mortgage brokers.

Considering we are in a recovering market that still has an abundance of foreclosures to get through (since the REO supply was artificially cut off with AB 284 in 2011 etc) and new neighborhoods and towers get approved to build left and right, I fear that adding to the supply side of the market is probably one of the worst things you can do right now.

The attorney practices law, the doctor practices medicine, I'd rather have either that didn't need to practice anymore, especially on me!

The replys are missing my point.I was probably unclear in my original question.For this discussion the pros and cons of doing work yourself and paying someone else is irrelevant.My question is:When I choose to do work myself, when I look at the numbers my profits are artificially high.Should I literally pay myself to make the numbers reflect reality?

Because if you aren't your returns could be artificially inflated.Do you know what the cap rate is in your area?

(YES it ended but politics have artificially kept it going)My advice, don't raid the toy box because eventually you will want to play.

Very hard to argue that housing is not at least a little bubbly given the artificially low interest rates and massive unemployment.  

This could cause confusion about possible current values and does this affect online comps and artificially inflate what the current market value may be?