I hope to meet some of you in real life sometime, just by reading this forum I feel like I know some of you already!

I agree with you Rick H.undefinedI've never met a successful real estate investor in my life, under 60 today, who had never taken a real estate agent's class and passed with the exception of two other professions, attorneys and CPAs or those that actually learned finance, law and general business.

I wish you much success finding the path back to your family life.

I've spent most of my life in Montgomery.

The game changer is that it appraised for $180K and we all know that there are actually 3 certainties in life; death, taxes and that eventually, ALL real estate must change hands.

I currently commute from Olathe to downtown everyday, so eliminating that from my life for good will also be a plus!

I won't want to be for the rest of my life.

I found biggerpockets after deciding I needed a life change; change being that I need to get away from the doldrum work of W2 50 hour a week work that constantly make me feel like my wheels are just spinning but making no progress. 

Use one of the standardize browsers {Mozillia Firefox, Opera, Chrome} and life will get much easier.btw: once you get access to a service (say SmartMove or your XYZ online Banking site),make your life easier by creating a Bookmark and when logging on, NEVER remember the password for security reasons.

This means the property needs to return $25k per year over the next 10 years in order to be equivalent to the first model.Moving from this simplified model to your real life situation, here are some complicating factors:1.