As I learned from family, friends, coworkers, and past landlords I knew very well, I was introduced to real estate ownership, but I never understood the scaling capability till one of my coworkers retired from his sales role at 32 years of age.

I won't be investing in the riskiest/most supportable asset subclasses such as hotels, and tilt my portfolio the ones that have historically been more stable such as multifamily and single-family housing.

I tend to buy where stable industry plants roots.

Do you want to take a good part of your lifetime to biuld equity in expensive townhouses that can appreciate, or do you want a portfolio or monster cashflowing rentals with no appreciation but you can retire off the cash flow.Different strokes for different folkes. 

I bought it because I may want to retire there someday and I paid $200k less than the current value, 4 years ago.

I am a partner with two others on 30 units held in a combination of LLCs both 'cash' and 'retirement' funds.

Is 2 years of "seasoning" with increased rents and stable tenants enough time, or should I wait longer?

My wife and I do have Big goals but we want to be financially stable when we build up so that we can enjoy life together while working less.. and with less stress.. lots of good advice here but the main theme is to do what feels right to us and I think we know what that is now.

We're seeing nice and stable returns year over year per SABORs numbers and at least in Central Texas we aren't showing any signs of slowing down.

On the other hand if we can stick to this same budget and raise our savings from $2k to $5k a month even 6 months of work might be worth it.The other crossroads I'm currently at is trying to train myself for a new position, so if and when I am laid off, or when I'm at a comfortable savings rate I can transition from this job to a more stable career.