That COL won’t resonate and will look like a whacky foreign language.

I have friends that own subway sandwhich shops they are doing very well its a job but they are building true wealth.I have another friend that has the number one take and bake pizza place in PDX they do very very good.. and talk about free time .. he is always inviting me to go fishing mid week.So I really depends on what you want to do.. but if its just buy a few rentals well that's very vanilla and should not be any big blow back from others.. now if you telling them you want to give up your income and jump into RE as a newbie then you should defiantly head the advice of others.. because this business in Certain markets is not realistic to go from nothing to self sustaining in any short amount of time unless your already starting with significant capital behind you.Now there are areas of the US were properties are so Cheap you can start with credit cards.. but those are very management intense situations and defiantly not for all

I'm guessing about 2k sq ft, and between the 1% rule of price and $1 sq ft, lets say $1750/year, so $145 month would be my lowest end without seeing the house.Would you be able to sustain this if you went into negative cash flow?

I am also very interested in networking with Developers of Tiny House, Green and Self Sustaining Communities.Please get in touch if you have any suggestions and I would love to help if you need anything in the Metro Atlanta Area or South Florida.

Appreciation by virtue of it's name doesn't sustain a business - it's just appreciated.

You need to look at what will resonate best with you.

( I plan on traveling there once I have a plan in place)The sustainable answer would be to find other passive investors as opposed to those who get paid referrals to lead you back to a sale.

I'm in a similar situation as you were two years ago -- looking to start a buy and hold portfolio primarily from long distance -- so your advice really resonated.  

Its impossible to have a crystal ball @Jonathan Vona, there are people like Robert Kiyosaki and other economists who predict a correction / recession / crash or whatever you want to call it this year or by 2019.If you are going by the 10-12 years cycle then it may happen, if you are looking at the debt levels in the US and Europe then yes it doesn't look sustainable especially with rising interest rates.

Sometimes home prices surge faster than rents, and you may not be able to sustain those returns on new acquisitions unless you want to own slum-like properties.