It requires entirely different skills and a different mindset.

I am not able to rehab - no skills and I am not much into being a landlord.

Investing is a profession and doing it right takes a certain level of effort.Of course, the flip side is that without direct MLS data...the full data and not the watered down version off Realtor.com...it's harder to find your deals or do any sort of statistical research without paying an arm and a leg for the primary data.

Hopefully the day will come where all of this makes sense.When you sell your house hopefully you do so at a level where you can pay back the bank the money you borrowed from them at the start.

Lets bring this place to the next level!

Once the builder moved on things leveled out some.

Starting from scratch, how long should it take to get to this level if I have say, 15hrs/wk to devote?

The medium price now for a home is 480k for a ghetto 1 level house with 4 walls and a yard, the better looking ones are at 600k and the NICE houses are at 780k-900k.

On a conscious or subconscious level, all of us have felt the impact of fear in our lives.

Personally, it is to much money for my comfort level unless it was a sure thing.