A summary of the changes can be found here:SEC Staff Recommends Updates to Accredited Investor DefinitionWhat's good:You can now take a test to qualify under the proposed rulesThere seems to be some critical thinking about the thresholds and indexing them to inflation instead of picking an arbitrary number and leaving it staticThere seems to be some critical thinking about who can invest whatThose with experience in private deals can exempt outWhat's bad:It seems hard for portals or funding platforms to implementWealthy investors are capped unless they make over $500k annually or have $2.5M in net worth

Now, this does not take into consideration the current occupancy, Deferred maintenance, Age of the property, amount of land, upside, supply index of the market, and getting the ACTUAL Expenses, rather than using an industry average of 35% as I just did in our little exercise.  

if i could, i would have saved more of my money and invested it in mutual(index) funds until i had enough for a downpayment on a house which i would have househacked.

If you are hiring a manager (as some mentioned here), then your options are more open... but if you are seldom going to see the place anyway, really run the numbers and include an management fee and appropriate vacancy rate (remember the manager may have less incentive than you)....compare your returns on that far away rental you have to worry over against an index fund or REIT may be a better investment.

To me, it seems that the BRRRR strategy may be possible given the constraints of a day job but I'm not sure whether that would be wise when compared to dumping any savings into an index fund and letting compounding work over time.I think this site is awesome with regards to everyone's willingness to give advice and guidance and I know I'm just getting started when it comes to diving into the realm of RE investing.

These are year 2015 contribution numbers which generally increase each year based on cost of living index. http://www.irs.gov/Retirement-Plans/One-Participan...

It's very user friendly and is index funds with very low fees.

However, this is very good for indexation of the content.

Yet I have rarely invested in that market for several reasons I will mention below.The Case Shiller Index is one of the better long-term measures of housing price changes.

REALTORS®’ Price Expectations By State Daily Real Estate News | Thursday, October 08, 2015 REALTORS® overall expect home prices to rise 3.5 percent over the next 12 months, according to the August 2015 REALTORS® Confidence Index Survey, which is based on the responses of a monthly survey to more than 50,000 real estate professionals.REALTORS® from Florida are the most upbeat about price expectations, with a median expected price growth in the 5 to 6 percent range over the next 12 months.