I think the "best" place is always going to be real life experiences, but I would recommend reading some basic negotiating books.

my two sense is, really go out and while you're in college - take real life "classes" in the street while also going to school in the college.

In many cases they're easier to manage than multi-family and leases can be much more attractive to investors as many times you'll find NNN style leases.

Andrew, your lawyer was talking about a cost segregation study.It involves identify and separating short life assets from your new property basis and depreciating them separately, thus accelerating depreciation.For example, you can depreciate a 200k property over 27.5 years, ORUsing cost segregation, you determine that you have 20k in 5-year assets within the home(carpet, fridge, AC, etc...)You can depreciate the 20k in assets over the next 5 years and depreciate the 180k for the property over 27.5.

Lots of life in the appliances.

My original long term goal was essentially to retire from my 9-5 job in 15 years time making enough to have a comfortable lifestyle on income from mutual funds and stocks (I'm slightly ahead of target on this front) but believe I can shorten this to (at most) 9 years if I add real estate into the mix.

He wore pants, a casual type shoe, and a polo style shirt.

"How do I get from where I am now, to where I want to be in life?".

I've spent a good period of my adult life in SE Asia and can attest that the Japanese do have the lowest mortgage rates in the world, but 2% it is not.

She's making a life change--moving in with the sweetie--and wants to sell.