I think once a young person adopted a wealth-building, options-conferring mindset, saving $50K in five years would not be difficult.

If the tenant challenged it in court their main defense would be: "I tried flipping breaker and it didn't work."

I was recently at a Real Estate conference on the West Coast 2 weeks ago and there was a lot of chatter about self management and online tools to make it happen.

Like I said, my own point of reference is Lake Wheeler Rd (if you are West of THAT then you are definitely ok - if you are East it's a mix and YMMV).PS: And in defense of Southeast Raleigh, I'll add that there are also some nice pockets East of Lake Wheeler and S Saunders... again, just do your homework.

First, there was some hard knocks like everyone else, then government schools, then college, then corporate schools, more college,  more governmental education, then appraisal and real estate courses, then seminars at HUD, national conferences for housing officials.

some place that if you drove through and weren't used to that type of setting you would make sure your car doors were locked grab your loved one's hand and you'd start rehashing of those self-defense lessons you took(or wish you'd taken).Generally its extremely poverished parts of town that could be occupied by any and every ethnicity that fell on extremely hard times or are simply a product from birth of poverty that haven't escaped which often results in those houses not being kept up to par on the interior/exterior.

There's a place for home runs, but great fundamentals (including defense) win games.

I have been taking martial arts and self defense for decades.

. - There is not an "Expo" per se, but we will have sponsors with tables in the conference hallway.

There have been so many times where I've conferred with others to help solve an issue.