Your income, while not irrelevant, isn't the primary factor.If you're cash-rich, I would start looking at 5- and 6-unit buildings in gentrifying neighborhoods like Inglewood and Hawthorne (my personal favorites).

Be stuck just like most other people in the rat race, answering to someone else and making someone else rich?

Now I am saying freedom number meaning you will not be rich but stable enough to sustain your lifestyle and grow your business to become rich or become whatever it is you want to be.  

The big four books that I recommend to everyone with similar interests to yours are: Rich Dad, Poor Day by Robert Kiyosaki, The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey, The Millionaire Next Door by Stanley and Danko, and Your Money or Your Life by Robin and Dominguez.

I currently work 60+ hours as a truck driver so I am always listening to audio books and listening to every Bigger Pockets Podcast that I can . 1 audio book that I listened to was the infamous Rich Dad Poor Dad which inadvertently led me to become infatuated with the potential REI has to offer.

@Bill Rich Thank you for your insight on the 203k.

Tonight I was reading my 8 year old rich kid smart kid and I explained to him how the rich don’t work for money.  

Right or rich as they say?

Tom Wheelwright is a Rich Dad Advisor.That said, with interest rates as low as they are, if you are able to get fixed rate mortgages and take cash out, I would suggest that.

I also see the riches some of them achieve and how the top brokers happen to be the same guys and girls I see in the office at 6am when I usually get in and leave when I do late in the day.