Stocks (What 145 Years of Returns Tells Us) (biggerpockets.com)level 2) what should you do next 50 yrs, answer: Whichever one gives you an EDGE. you need to study both, then find which one you really can't stop thinking/dreaming about, then study/breathe/chew/swallow/digest everything about that one and better yet a narrow focus within, so you can develop an informational EDGE. 

There were so many issues to tackle, I felt like I was drowning in a sea of problems.Eventually, I had to swallow my pride and admit that I needed help.

It's the leader in many markets and I have seen them swallowing all the top agents, doing this creates a snowball effect as the more luxury listings with one firm the more top agents want to join.

Any area that's designated for short-term leasing will just get swallowed up.  

Don't bite big if you you THINK can't swallow.

Tough pill to swallow.

The first house i bought is now my rental instead of the one i inherited which i was renting out for the last 4 years.Long term Goals are to acquire more properties over time, currently my short term goal is to upgrade to a nicer house to live in.My realtor swears up and down not to sell it and to refinance the one im in, as well as my lender, but 259k in interest going from it being paid off in 4 years to 1600 a month for another 30 years is a hard pill to swallow, even though technically the tenants would be paying it off but at the same time i lose allot of profit.

Well to be fair I’m not saying he shouldn’t have bought them (the coc return with leverage almost certainly outperformed an index fund, granted with a lot more headache) or even that he should have sold them a few years ago (the index fund thing makes a ton of sense & I’ve sold properties before and just eaten a small cap gains but when you keep stuff forever that hit becomes really hard to swallow) just that the type of asset you are in when you are older matters a lot more than when your 25, also 5 is hard to manage, if you have 25 rentals and your 88 your going to have a hard time regardless of if you have property management.

Of course you need to market to your past guests, we do it ourselves as all our apartments are in the CBD so people return for birthdays, Anniversaries, shows etc.

I think that when we see rates drop down to about 5%, we see those sellers start to come out of the woodwork because even though that 3.5% interest they currently have looks great, a 5% interest on their dream home or next step up is a lot easier for them to swallow than a 7%.