@Dawn @Dawn A.undefined who helped critique my first and very bad blog.and @Ben Leybovich, I argued with Ben a lot and disagreed almost always, but I also always learned something. 

Right now, it's 11:30 pm, my hands are covered in Kilz, I'll be up at the crack of dawn tomorrow to go work s'more on my properties...I get unsolicited messages from new users who talk to me about "passive income" and I just laugh when I see them.One aspect of the cheap cash-flow rental game that we haven't talked about in this thread is selling the portfolio of small multifamily and SFR.

Then in my online life, here on BP, I too surround myself with incredibly successful people like @Mindy Jensen, @Alexander Scott Felice, @Joel Owens, @Brie Schmidt, @Dawn Brenengen, @Darren Sager, @Ryan Murdock, @Ned Carey, @Jay Hinrichs.Alex says Broke is a Choice.....and similarly, I am a big believer that Success is a Choice, and the start of that success is surrounding yourself with successful people.

@Matthew Peterson reminds me of my youth, first year of University, enjoy our nude & topless beaches, party til dawn until the cold reality of being conscripted hit @ 18, but we still couldn't drink (legally).

In labs in college I had to say "I am not the dishwasher. 

During the introductions it dawned on me that I was in a room with a bunch of people that do rehabs/remodeling and this would be a great chance to network.

-We've replaced a dishwasher that was most likely running perfectly because someone didn't check the shut off valve. 

., @Mike Cumbie, @Dawn Brenengen, @Lucas Hall, @Julie Marquez, @Joshua D., @Bill Gulley, @Joel Owens, @Ryan Murdock, @David Krulac, @Linda Weygant, @Steve Vaughan, @Ali Boone, @Nathan G., @Brian Ellis, @Randy E., @Brian Gibbons, @Jim K., @Jill F., @Joe Villeneuve, @Andrew Syrios, @Roy N., @Jonathan Greene, @Nicole Heasley, and a lot of others I'm sure are slipping my mind at the moment. 

Blink your eyes and you'll be in your early 40's like me...I get up well before dawn to go to work so I can save money to invest.

Those are pretty buzzwords, but considering members of many races have been enslaved en masse since the dawn of time yet many are doing better than us, that theory seems flimsy at best.