What I usually recommend is that if people are buying a pure rental (not a house hack), they buy close to where they live (within 15-20 minutes drive).

So I'm not even sure its purely an altruistic move.

How about when you have a few friends over to sit around the fire pit and drink beer until midnight? 

I am looking for anyone interested in the Houston area to get coffee or drinks and discuss SFR investing.

Money Mustache is also fairly honest about the whole concept as well for him, which was really more of a "financial security" than "sit on the beach drinking appletinis" retirement.2.

It could be a Happy Hour on a Friday afternoon in a casual environment like Katy Trail Ice House Outpost in Plano where they have lots of tables and space to get a drink, gather, meet and talk real estate.

When the water sits still it becomes non-potable very quickly, but if it has a strong current it is safe to drink, because there is no germ that can grow without sitting still" When your money sits still in a savings account it weathers in the storm of inflation.

I got my start by buying a four unit building as a pure investment, and since then I have purchased over 100 apartment units.

Conventional loan. 20% down and extra cash invested is purely for reserves How did you add value to the deal?

(expensive in a number of ways), or do we go for pure economy and stack them cheap and deep since there seems to be no end in sight of costs or demand.