The common theme is that partners' goals should line up as closely as possible. 

My fiancé and I are currently living with relatives while we save for our wedding and first house next spring/summer.

The overall theme of this thread is whether one should spend any money at all on a mentor.90% or more of these deals go through brokers one way or another.. if the 20k is to learn how to buy off market and you are not using a broker well then yes its cheap.. but there is no mystery to this.. 

In my area around Disney World, the ones that rent the most with the highest nightly rates are generally the ones that are either new or upgraded offering a lot of fun amenities like themed kids bedrooms, video games, game rooms and movie theaters. 

oh and weddings.

I just wonder if they'll use that against me during the current auction period, which ends on Wed.  

The last wholesaler I almost dealt with had a shot of his new wife chugging two bottles of vodka at the same time on his wedding day up on his public FB page, with him cheering her on.

We meet (Zen and the Art of Real Estate Investing, also my podcast) the first WED of every month in-person around NJ.

We are planning on moving to Houston in 2023 and want to build up some passive income up here in milwaukee to aid us in the move, our wedding the week before the move, her grad school the year after we move, and of course our mortgage.

Also, the consistent theme is to prepare for any upcoming recession by hoarding cash, be minimally leveraged, and buy assets at a perceived bottom of the cycle.Question is, what assets are we to look for?