I heard somewhere that UAW members earn about $45 per hour, while Toyota pays their American workers about $12 per hour.

Well, if I understand correctly Obama is offering way more tax cuts than Bush did in his first two years.Unless you earn over $250K.

If the cap rate is high enough, you'll earn a decent return.

But then, think forward of retirement age too.If you have say 650K in the ROTH and earn 12% in retirement investing in a mix of your best rentals, some notes, etc.... you would be making about 75K per year TAX FREE.

They were “earning” $6500 a deal?

Having dead equity is costing you $2 for every $1 you earn from a property.

This way you can add value right away while learning from others on the team that have the skills / knowledge you need to have.If you don't have the time, knowledge or interest to be active (think of this as another job really to actively operate your own apartment community), but like apartments you can invest passively with good apartment operators who already have the solid model of success that you want and with intention, learn from them while you are earning. 

I believe the Fidelity plan I have it is a small $100 or $150 one-time fee and rates are about 5.25% payback from your after tax earnings back to your 401k in addition to your mortgage.

I'm starting to get antsy, and I'm starting to tell my wife over and over again, How much I HATE working for a SET WAGE making other people rich.That being said, I feel I'm a pretty smart guy, went to college at 17, there I earned my Associates Degree, chasing a vision of helping people with addiction and crisis by working in Psychology.

And if things do hit the fan, you have SOOOO many years to earn that money back.