I'd be there in my landlord clothes, and they wouldn't give me the time of day until they noticed I had accumulated half the street :) They'd go right to the realtor and I'm guessing they assumed I was his little brother tagging along for the ride?

You accumulate these from year to year.

I have two properties so far, plan on accumulating more.

If it's an electric stove, is it clean or has grime accumulated on it?

My goal is to accumulate as many real estate assets and cash flow as much as possible from my assets as possible.

My schtick was Drive Control Automation...loved it but the politics etc drove me crazy.I called it quits @ 49 only because we had accumulated a good stable of quality properties.I love RE & the constant challenges.

I expect to hear from Jon H soon :) Since the main benefit of the Roth is to allow gains to accumulate tax-free it seems counter-productive to do something that makes the gains taxable.

It's a great self-motivator - it's a lot easier to say "right, next property pays the water and electricity bill" than looking up at this mountain of what it takes to become financially independent.One way of approaching reaching your goal while not accumulating too many properties is this:- Figure out your comfortable living expenses, plus some money to continue investing once you're full-time.- Figure out how many properties that would take, if they were paid off.

Accumulating tiny amounts of cash flow per house simply doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

With houses that cheap and your income so good, there is really no reason to accumulate a lot of debt.