I do agree that most new investors have no idea how much work any real estate strategy is, and they come into it with unrealistic goals of riches and retirement by the end of year.

My wife's grandparents are moving into a retirement community and giving me first dibs.

I wish you could visit Davao City one of these days and see why it's considered as one of the retirement havens in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.

The situation is the owners are retired, live far away in another state, and don't want to fool with updating the house from all it's Brady Bunch glory.

The bulk of my retirement assets are in a company sponsored non-qualified plan that cannot be touched or "self-directed" - I chose to annuitize the plan early a couple years ago and it generates approximately $60,000 annually for the rest of my life or my wife's if she survives me.

I have 15 years of military experience and plan to retire in 5 years.

I'm not currently an investor, but I'm putting my 15 year goal of retirement against a business plan that will be centered around real estate investments.

This helps to further define my early retirement criteria but I honestly don't think I'll have nearly enough rental income to replace my day job in less than 2 years so it doesn't matter that much anyway.

My youngest son has a Bearded Dragon and you can't get a more low maintenance pet than Frank; he hibernates half the time.My friend and I once volunteered to bring our retired racing greyhounds to be part of a sort of "petting zoo" at the local fall fair. 

I am an investor from Roseville, Ca. but grew up in Greensboro and will probably retire back to the Carolinas in afew years.