I would like to just have the freedom to get up early and go for a mountain bike ride around the lake while the sun is rising or grab my gear and go bowhunt white tails whenever I felt like it .id be happy just to read a book and have a cup of coffee on my deck each morning 

I'm up for coffee or beers!  

And she removed everything off the counter top (coffee pot, spice rack, etc) and put them in random cabinets (???). 

We have coffee and talk for an hour.

You will run into many successful individuals who went down the path, then you can introduce yourself and ask if you can buy them coffee to pick their brain. ) If they seem to know all the answers to your questions, you could ask them if you can help them out with any future transactions or you could do BP search and stalk someone who's an investor in the area you're interested and look at their profile and read through the responses they've made lol good luck and whether that first deal is good or bad, it's learning and executing more :)

Simply writing down where all of his money is going can help him-keep a spending journal of all the expenses including the little things like coffee, lunch, etc.Can he also find a second job to help pay it down sooner? 

We should have a coffee.

Previously it was a coffee brown.

I  RARELY FIND ANYONE within NYC itself, so it's more difficult to connect physically with people, but I would love to connect and add value to those who are on the same path as me or already there or we could just build rapport over some ice coffee with people who are in the area and talk Real Estate 

I previously owned a chain of coffee shops and have some experience buying and selling small businesses