Depending on your current family situations and your local market:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I’m going suggest 180 degree reversePurchase rental property to live in since you already been sharing common space.Duplex, tri-plex, 4 family multiple unit with the knowledge of eventually move out within 2 to 3 yearsYou never know: 1 to 2 self direct investments instead of paying your existing landlord might pay for at                                least half of your future personal sfr. ( cashflow wise )

law degree (lol).

I am in the technical field and I always am stressing about not getting the funds to start investing due to not having a degree.

As for expenses that we don't have to deal with up here in the great white north (he says as it's 70+ degrees in mid October still), when I lived in the D.C. area termite control was a must.

Currently I'm 22, living with my father and am paying for a useless degree (Theatre, 32k debt ~4.5%).

I've Now I'm reading "RIch dad poor dad" by Robert Kiyosaki.I've been "an educated poor dad" of three kids, but my mindset has been 180 degree turned around after reading these books.

If I have a 30year note, and my properties cash flow, or at least break even, a short term drop in real estate prices have little impact on me, because I have a high degree of confidence that home prices will be much higher 20 years from now than they are now.Maybe we are near the end of the super great times.  

I was curious if anyone out there in the big wide world invests using this strategy and to what degree of success.

Hello BP!How many of you BP investors out here in the forums use seller financing in the market today, and how successful is it? I know it is not for every seller because most sellers have a mortgage with a due on sal...

@Kyle Coleman I've learned more about how to build a house in the few months following the flood than I took away from a four year Construction Management degree from LSU.