My end goal is to be a wealthy real estate investor, however i need a decent career to get started.

It's definitely a unique market - three Fortune 100s and a major public university for an MSA of ~500K, and Walmart has made a lot of people in the area very wealthy.  

Exercise everyday, and stick to my low carb diet :/ 6.

My ultimate goal is to have a portfolio of real estate and be wealthy, but I want to start with a duplex I can live in.

It is impossible to get wealthy without leveraging other peoples time, talent, or money.I am always re-evaluating my portfolio to pull money out and re-invest.

Not that being busy is a bad thing, just some need more and some want less.Agree wealth is created through unrealized capital gains.

In retirement I want to help others build wealth.  I

They could also just cap the tax free value at something like $10M and the rest is taxed when you sell just like capital gains instead of income like a 401k.They are watching people like peter thiel and mitt Romney abuse the SDIRA and want to find a way to make it less advantageous for the super wealthy to hide hundreds of millions from taxes.Also for budget reconciliation they only get to count tax revenues in the next 10 years which is why some want to tax unrealized gains so they have enough money to reconcile a massive spend on infrastructure and the social safety net

Cash flow properties give you money to live on, but equity growth is what will really accelerate your wealth.  I

A G 4 is a 20 million dollar plus plane that will cost you 25 k to 40k an hour to operate so never really saw him post after that.. he was somewhere north of ATL there is a big lake there and he talk about his lakefront home and other nice trappings of wealth..  I