Financial freedom requires a passive income that meets three requirements:Your income keeps pace with inflation: Financial freedom is more than just replacing your current income; it's about maintaining your current lifestyle for life.

Most even slightly successful people are delighted to talk about their success, but no one likes to cast pearls before swine.Personally, it also irks me to deal with young people who have no obvious reason to invest in real estate, beyond scratching a general itch to make more money in order to spend more money on improving their lifestyle.

What do you effect on your lifestyle do you want the property or its equity to have? 

I would NEVER live where I have props, but they pay for my lifestyle, All the best  

The STR we are renting is geared toward our lifestyle with 3 kids near the beach. 

Not my life style, but it suited him.

We are from the area and have seen the major improvements and enhancements that enable both STR and LTR rental success. 

How does Bigger w differ from Lifestyle Unlimited. del Wamsley?

Wouldn't a couple of paid off rentals sustain your elderly father's lifestyle?

But to be frank, CA's trajectory is impossible to replicate as working remote has become more prevalent, companies more “decentralized”, and more people think about not just professions, but also lifestyles these days).Are you able to find trustworthy realtors/PMs or even service providers?