., part of their mortgage for office space, vehicle expenses, cell phone, home phone, computers, printers.....I could go on for pages, but you get the gist. 

Learn to pull comps and compute values.  

Other members of your family might put more weight and favor on creating lifelong family memories with experiences than saving up to be financially free many decades from now etc.My commercial clients what allows them to accelerate investing is their job or business pays them a lot.

Memory Care? 

I have a house under contract for 10k (set to  close hopefully by Memorial Day) .

I am looking to close ASAP, so if you know inspectors who can come out tomorrow (yes, Memorial day), I would love you forever.

when I was building out in Hood river a few years ago and one of Boeing's subsidies ( builds drones) was taking up 70% of the office space up and down the Gorge I worried about what would happen if Boeing pulled out.Growing up in Silicon valley many dont realize that, the market there pre computers was driven by aerospace IE Lookheed.Or Pre computer in Seattle Boeing Sneezed and Seattle caught the flu.

Sure the interest isn't double-digits, but I'd much rather make 3% than 0.2% in a money market for literally 3 minutes more computer effort.  

Again you have never been , you  do not have hands on experience, you just sit in front of a computer , I wish you all the best, Neigborhood Scout, too funnyBTW, 90% of the 1ks  and 1ks  of properties that have been bought for rentals are from OUT OF STATE AND COUNTRY NOT LOCALS.

It just doesn't compute to me.Sorry.Lastly.