Needless to say being a tech at a big corporation will not make me wealthy!

But happy to connect, I'm a former marine who saw MF as a way to build generational wealth. I

As you said, real estate is the long game, "get rich slowly", and the role of wealth is to make our lives better.I'm financially conservative so take my advice in that context.Regarding the options you outlined, personally I'd pick waiting until I had the 20% down.

Fast-forward 13 years to this past week, I was picked up in a private plane and flown to California to meet with a very wealthy family to discuss a real estate investment opportunity.

A lease payment of $320 is a losing proposition if your going al is to become wealthy.

You have made a decision that will likely make you a very wealthy person someday.

The Millionaire Next Door, by Stanley and DankoIt really opened my eyes up to how everyday people became wealthy.

Not sure how it has changed since I was there in 01, but it is so interesting to see the rubble that the Soviet Union left behind and the stark contrast between it and its wealthy neighbors.

My Jets seemed to have gone on a diet this season with all of the talent they let go but substituted and kept some quality players and I think it'll be to their benefit.

They were all socialists drinking the same koolaid and you can tell when socialists get involved in investing because they speak as if wealth is a birth right to everyone who believes in it.