I know a guy who bought his first fixer at age 15!

@Don Konipol   I operated my HML company in Oakland and I was the RE broker of record.. our threshold in the day was no more than 10 fractionalized interest. but every single loan just about that we made was fractionalized.. full time job cutting monthly checks to all our investors we did it by hand in the dark ages :).

Started 5 years ago at age 23)53% stock (mutual funds, mostly purchased by extended family members when I was born, with dividends continuously reinvested)

Personally I believe anyone who doesn't know there was lead based paint  in building of this age is living in a vacuum that being said all of our leases have standard lead disclosures. 

I've tried looking on my own but it's a challenge trying to weed out the communities with rental or age restrictions.1.

The earnings from your principal cannot normally be withdrawn prior to age 59½ without paying the 10% early withdrawal penalty.

My wife and I are up in Vancouver. at my age (26) I would use the leverage to my advantage as much as possible.

Be sure to have the plan drafted to allow for in-service distributions, under a criteria that you meet today (age, time of service with the company, etc).  

I've saved up what I think is a remarkable amount of cash for somebody my age and I have a vast amount of rehabbing real estate and mechanical knowledge. 

Sovereign debt levels are crazy high and only going higher due to unfunded liabilities caused by the aging of the baby boomers.Debt is more in demand than any time before.