I was blowing all of my military salary on train rides all over europe at 20 so it’s not really a comparison

If you started from the bottom and then achieved incredible success, then you have plenty of examples to make the comparison between what is the most important area of Investment you can make.The reason why someone who started from the bottom can really give clarity on what is most important is because someone like me can point out the people in our lives that have FAILED to achieve anything close to our results.The Rags to Riches story gives you incredible insights.When you are DIRT poor like I was in my childhood, ALL your friends are like you...

He was able to secure the new vehicles at a very low cost in comparison to buying new or even new-used from other authorized car resellers.

Also I appreciate the comparison between you and Sam, it made a lot of sense.

The comparisons were based on information that the OP presented.  

Yes, having a GC license and over 25 years experience in complicated renovations makes flips easy in comparison. 

As someone who endured winters in MN for far too many years, Seattle winters feel like summer in comparison.

Everything costs like double, and then you have other problems like expensive accessories, kids can't use it for gaming, drivers for some devices are inadequate, etc.The comments here make me think people are buying a $300 Best Buy Windows laptop that runs like crap, and then buy a $1800 Macbook pro that's amazing in comparison...of course the Mac is going to destroy the Windows laptop in that scenario, it has an SSD drive, faster processor, etc. 

But it was Theodore Roosevelt who reminded us that "comparison is the thief of joy".Income - outgo - staying power - It's way more about about the attitude than the decimal point!

In comparison to claims I've been involved with for other property owners with other carriers.