Provide value and have a mentality of wanting to help others and people will naturally flock to you and want to help you succeed.

Buy the house but mentally file it as a gift of sorts.  

At the same time, many people weighing in mentioning “don’t play the super leveraged game” contradict countless articles on here that talk about doing your math, leveraging the value of your primary residence through a HELOC (OPM) to purchase another home and tout a “just get in the game somehow” mentality.  

Bred hustler mentality.

I'm finding the herd mentality among some investors and it seems they are playing behind the pack.

There are too many broke people in the real estate world with mentalities about money that are guaranteed to keep them broke, forever spouting the cheap opinions and the even cheaper excuses of the broke.This whole real estate thing is hard, Jason, however you go at it.

Decision Fatigue: Analyzing properties, financing options, and market trends requires mental effort.

Part of the issue was he mentally was still treating it as his "home" instead of an investment.

Borderline Bitcoin mentality. 

What comes after Real Estate is freedom and generational wealth, if you did it right.At that point, some people might need to learn to hacksaw off the golden handcuffs of the grinder mentality that got them there.