Our real estate investments are the income we can count on. 6 doors.Federal debt is now over $61,000 per man, woman and child, so quite a few things have to be cut. 

Maybe when I'm closer to retirement I'll do more, but I'm 32 and not being able to touch my money for 30 years doesn't help my goals to permanently retire by 50. 

Risk can be managed in two other ways than just holding houses which will all melt when markets retreat - there is Zero protection there from market correction.Two better approaches to Asset Preservation are: 1) insurance *Hedging strategies - which should cost about 4%, and there is no need to hedge 100% - only in accordance with the amount of protection you want. 2) building capital in to a much greater sum - which can only be achieved by putting your money to work and not sending it on a permanent holiday - as Buy and BeHolders do.

He will end up as a permanent tenant will all his short comings.

You'll eventually need a permanent place.

We are spending more time asking questions like what does scale look like to us, refining our buying criteria.We don’t really want to do syndications or work in permanent partnerships (at least today), and it’s also important to us to not bet the farm on the success or failure of one deal.

Make sure you know this before you do anything else.In my market, most properties that would be permanent residences or long term rentals would not make good short-term rentals.  

You can now get a conventional loan with a good interest rate, lower your payment to improve cash flow and have a permanent loan.We were able to refinance into the conventional loan on a couple of properties with equity such that the owner had almost zero cash tied up in the now positive cash flowing property.He now owns a positive cash flowing property in good condition with almost no cash tied up in the property.

We mostly invest around lightrail because we feel like it's infrastructure that is new and permanent. 

First off, the policy must be a permanent life insurance policy: either whole life or universal life.