If your income can handle the cash flow, the interest rate on that car loan is so low that you can probably invest that money and earn more than the interest you are paying.

Those teachings were built on a premise that your money would earn "x" a year every year until you retire.

You need an agent, one on salary you'll pay the listing agent's commission (selling) and then allocate the salary and any bonus as the buyer's agent's earnings, the do not have to be the same.

The more you can cut the l;earning curve back the sooner you get to the coveted duo: cash flow AND peace of mind.Once you know what you want, go for it.

They earn about 7X's the monthy rent.

Goes back to how inaccurate are those statistics when people can't correctly identify a dog.I like Shaun's comment about requiring paperwork showing the dog has done obedience training and/or successfully earned the Canine Good Citizen (CGC) title from AKC (which isn't difficult at all, even the advanced CGC title).

This act is more easily described as a person who is in the business of earning a fee or commission for getting a seller to sell and a buyer to buy.

It's a truism that people generally take less care with "free" money than they do hith hard-earned!

At that point, I decided I wanted to get bigger, and had to swallow the bitter pill of giving up some of my hard earned cashflow to a 3rd party property management company so that I could keep my sanity, my job and my family life while continuing to grow the business.  

This reply isn't meant AT ALL to be political (I'm a big fan of capitalism, probably fall closer to the "rich" side than the "poor" side and don't begrudge anyone earning and keeping anything), so don't take it that way and let's try not to slip down a political rathole...With that said, I think the statistic presented is completely meaningless...This is one of those situations where talking about "averages" is very misleading.