Short sales seem to take forever, and everyone knows how difficult the mortgage business is.

So if you have $1M saved, for instance, and you are able to live on $40K a year, then you'll be able to take $40K a year out of your investment portfolio to spend and you won't die broke.More information on that: How to Retire Forever on a Fixed Chunk of MoneyOn the other hand, this is a Bigger Pockets's take on the "freedom number" concept:How to Calculate Your Freedom Number by Learning Your “Real” Net WorthSince many number of people here on Bigger Pockets are not interested in the slightest in curtailing their personal spending or even doing the work of accounting for it, the whole "freedom number" notion, which depends on rigorously controlling your spending, gets mighty fuzzy around here.We have also largely agreed in this thread that there is no such thing at 100% passive real estate investment, or to reuse @JD Martin's very useful phrasing, "the idea that 99% of people are going to have a totally passive portfolio that runs itself while they drink Appletinis on the beach is pure fantasy."

I'm not sure if i should build her a small little house or find her a forever home?

I do OOS investing and really for my market it’s the way to go I’d be saving forever to pay for a property and I wouldn’t make any progress I go OOS and it’s so much easier and rent is higher and property is much cheaper if I get enough I might come to my market but so far OOS works for me

As I'm doing more research regarding staining and sealing, I'm realizing these solutions don't last forever. 

In the long run, if the project takes forever or has to be done over there are no savings.

Endemic inflation, however, was not over.A generation after Volcker, the Fed committed itself to perpetual inflation at the rate of 2% forever.

We sacrifice today by living in a smaller unit, but that isn't forever.

That person, who I never need to ever think of again, is now in my system forever.

Worse, they leave a 1 star because this happened and then it becomes a thorn in your side forever with that review.But having said all that, if you really want to control it, lock it up, anywhere.