I have held true to the debt free mentality for several years, and it has worked great for me.  

I think wrapping my head around the financing methods that are readily available and reproducible will help me scale mentally and practically though.

The problem is, a property manager will never have an “owner’s mentality.”

Its mental out here.

I don't hate my job at all, I'm very lucky that my job is creative and not boring or anything, but I still have to answer to someone everyday, and I would like to be free of someone over my shoulder and being around the rat race mentality, and I figure since I'm young it'd be good to get a head start in making changes to take control of where my life is headed. 

I got my first deal 10 mins away then my second deal 25 mins away and then 2 more deals 1 hour and 30 mins away. the last one has given me the tools to mentally invest out of state having my A team on the ground to help me manage the properties when I am not too close.

I also keep active in some of the local community organizations in the Collinwood and Euclid neighborhoods and can attest to the strong ownership mentality of the people living in the 44119.

I ask most of my new investor clients in Milwaukee that question – it’s just a mental exercise to snap them out of the cash-flow-exclusive thinking and show that there is a bigger picture.

This same "homeowner" mentality is then carried over to REI, and they lose...but don't know it.Money, your own money, or your seed money (wherever it came from) is a verb.  

Perhaps that lie in the sky kinda mentality and I’m sure people come in here with aspirations like.