Everyone starts somewhere and my tea is in place.  

Regarding my initial question on capital calls, my reading of said tea leaves says that 80-90% of capital calls in this current cycle will fail.LP’s out there: think things through carefully before agreeing to capital calls!

.- In reverse direction, American oil company invested heavily in rubber, tea plantation, oil company in such country since ... 1920s- Mainland Chinese family came to Cupertino,CA in early 2000 to purchased house there.I meant to say, the US mainstream investor is just mainly "do not know" those international activities already happening in the last 20 30 years or so.

I would recommend that you keep saving and looking for something more BRRR if that's your cup of tea.

We bought our first investment property in December 2017, the numbers were awesome but the building was old and the tenants weren't my cup of tea.

Green Tea Memory Foam2.

In rare situations that can be as simple as slapping some paint and flooring down, but more often now it means developing land, subdividing lots, scrape and build, etc.If that's not your cup of tea, that's okay; the stock market is perfect for passive investors, and returns are quite good.

A coffee/tea tray in the kitchen nook with cups and pretty napkins will warm the space, as well as setting a dining table.

It very well could be a much better play, it's just not my cup of tea. 

I just don't go there.....Actually, I'd have to say that I have been an old Republican, not a Tea Party type, and gravitated to the center or it could have been that others moved so far right that I feel like I'm in the center...LOLI like aspects of both sides, but I'm just hearing more muck/misinformation on the elephant ride.So, that was to clear up any thought that I might be a far left socialist, I'm not.