Can't buy a house to ride the equity train when your 2BR rental appraises for almost $800k.So, E-6 promotable at 40 years old with another decade to go for enough active duty retirement points (I had a lot of guard and civil service time, so 16.5 good "years" so far but not full up on pay points), I truly can't crunch the numbers in a way that shows me any benefit to plugging $18k/yr into a Roth TSP.

@Ralph Pena, When I used to GM two companies in Philly, we used John E. 

E-mail me, I would like help if I can. 

I used to hold my RE License but put it on hold to pursue a promotion at my "day job".

For my profession i own two businesses in the e-commerce sector. 

Blue Chips and the S&P500 companies have more cash on hand than ever, M&A activity is trough the roof, banks are well capitalized, P/E ratios are historically strong so again, why the 300 point swing today?  

However, the time came when I was at that cusp point, and I went to my bosses boss, and said, "Look here's the deal, because I work 80 hrs a week, I am missing out on opportunities in investing, I either need to know that I will be promoted to make my time here worthwhile missing those opportunities, or I need to stop missing those opportunities."

With that said, it hit me this morning that promoting a 203k loan for this property just might help to get it sold.

I actually don't know how much I'll have saved each year with raises, promotions, unexpected expenses, good years, bad years, etc.

Schedule E of my tax returns document the rent and expenses.