I'm currently an aircraft mechanic working for the department of defense.

While doing so, start strategizing you next investment.  4.

If I were shopping for an investment property today, I would be looking for one of the following: something to fix and flip within 2 - 3 months, a house-hack (live in and build equity with practical and strategic upgrades that reflect a good ROI for the neighborhood), or renovate and rent in a low vacancy area (buy and hold for 5+ years).  

In this case, I would ask myself this question amongst others, “am I leveraging this debt strategically to fund future growth?”.

In those situations, to me at least, fiduciary responsibility means asking clients to go do their homework and come back once they’ve nailed down their investing strategy and put funding in place, so that we can strategically pinpoint deals that are right for them and move on them in a timely manner.  

So when I’m listening to the bp podcast I hear a lot of investors when speaking about their criteria, will have a certain start year of home that they will only invest in like i May here this person only buy homes 20 years or newer or this person only buys 1980s and up for various strategic reasons.... so for discussion, what’s yours ?

I'd say what I'm looking forward to from a recession is us (investors) as a community coming together and helping each other out to find good deals, strategize as a community, and build up the housing market again (assuming it crashes) so people can live comfortably and have places for their families to grow and get back on their feet, find jobs etc. 

Thanks for all your input Bill, "A beautiful symphony of strategic finance" I like what I'm seeing, I just have to digest it all.

If they can't pay, you want then to move peacefully, rather than choose to strategically default on the rent in their attempt to get financially soluble.

It's good to have an exit strategy at the beginning, but it should be more based on strategic necessity than forecasting appreciation over time.