I congratulate you on your debt free lifestyle.

However, I know that by staying focused on my end goal and constantly taking small steps to get there, I will be living a better lifestyle than my peers when I am about 30 years old.

These individuals cannot even buy for income; they buy for lifestyle.

The best way to enhance your people skills is to exercise them, so you need to find ways to be involved.

I'm definitely looking forward to networking with everyone here and hopefully leveraging this forum to learn, expand my power team, and ultimately enhance by businesses!

One of the key's to our progress so far has been living below our means and not upgrading our lifestyle as the income increased.

There is an army of people out there who have hid under the blanket of RC for years if not decades, just living their lives, believing the could afford a better life style then their salaries actual command.

That often causes their charges to be enhanced to felonies.You might also find that cultural norms are changing.While I am extremely anti-drug use, you might be surprised that the majority of people in many states thinks it is insane that someone would hold marijuana use against someone. 

I had started listening to the Survival Podcast to learn about the homesteading lifestyle.

On the growth of your operation...Probably much depends on your circumstances and lifestyle..of course, you get economy of scale with multiple units in one structure (one mortgage, one insurance bill, tax bill, one roof, one lawn, one parking lot/driveway, etc), so a fourplex  gives you even more scale than the duplex (or your question may even be about 5 plus units)..