But your hands aren't tied you can choose to switch brokerages at any time.If you become a qualifying broker and have associate brokers working under you, that's a whole different game with a different set of responsibilities.Your story resonates with me because I'm the same age as you and I've had my share of financial problems..

Like when i went on a camping/fishing trip, I was texting bad and forth with a new tenant coaching her on how to use electronic payment software.I decided to go 50/50 traditional/Roth, mostly because I genuinely have NO IDEA if I will take a high paying civilian job in the max tax bracket, live off and pursue real estate full time, or something in between - after leaving the service in a few years.

It really resonates with me.

Some genuinely loathe their job, and some(probably a smaller percent) love their job.

@Marian Smith I'm a very sarcastic person and it is pretty hard to distinguish between someone who is genuine and just tugging my shirt on here without emojis lol!

Beau, I really resonate with your comment. 

I am genuinely curious as to why you think this way.

I've lived here all my life and it resonates with me deeply but what I was doing wasn't helping them or me.

My first one was full priced off the MLS, so it was genuinely luck of market timing.

The book that changed a lot of things for us, really did resonate with is, was Thomas J.