I put together a retrospective of all our properties over the years in a photo-book format that I delivered to he and his wife over dinner a couple weeks ago. 

I really focused on the property and transaction well, but in retrospect I would also look at the neighborhood and nearby properties in a more detailed, granular way. 

In retrospect, I can say delinquency has improved since then.  

In retrospect, whether I have the property "tied up" or not, he is still getting his cash flow from those properties as well as the others.

As we know, a LOT of folks have gotten burned by that kind of thinking.For a more savvy investor it can be a little more complicated.While I don't claim to be terribly savvy, my first house made me a lot of money, therefore I see it in retrospect as a "good investment".

Such a smart move in retrospect.

In retrospect, I'm sure that wasn't actually the case.

(I did some of the internal work myself, which upon retrospect could be good or bad.)

In retrospect, is there anything you would have done differently in order to have avoided all of this mess?

People like you, and Willow Tufano, (the 14 year old girl who bought her first house) excite me, because I know that you are on such an amazing journey of self discovery.To answer your question, in retrospect, after all the hundreds of homes I've either bought, sold, or sold for others; of all the people I've known who have "made it big"; the resounding answer to your question is wholesaling.It Works When You BelieveBelieve it or not, you are just a few short months away from being 18.