In addition, the white house has tasked the DOL and SEC to open up private placements to a much larger audience and possibly make accredited investor and qualified purchaser requirements decrease or go away.I have direct investments in real estate and investments in syndications and the stock market.  

Rich Dad, Poor Dad also helps shift your mindset.Podcasts: BiggerPockets Podcast and Real Estate Rookie are excellent for learning from investors at different stages.Local networking: REI meetups or BiggerPockets meetups are gold for real-world insights and connections.Hands-on learning: Even analyzing deals daily (using calculators here on BP) builds the muscle memory to spot opportunities.I’m a real estate agent in Memphis, TN, and I help a lot of out-of-state investors grow their rental portfolios here.

I know locally employed people especially at certain businesses will stay until they buy so that helps decrease turnovers.

.- Even if all of you reading this planted a 1,000 acres; that would not but a dent in the demand, and decreasing availability.- If the world goes into a recession or depression. 

As I said, I find value here, but the value and time has decreased from my initial time on the site

@Ben Rosenblum  Its great the airbnb worked out for you and eliminating the 1 night stays is probably the key factor in decreasing hassle. 

Between the two, you need to underwrite that rent growth won't grow as fast as expenses--that is rent to price ratio is likely to continue to decrease. 

They didn't lose their jobs so there was no decrease in rent or vacancies.Since 2015, the average annual appreciation and rent growth rates were 9% and 7%, respectively.Less than 2% vacancy rateWhere did I come up with this method?

I've been risk-averse my entire life (that's why I've been doing the corporate thing for 20+ years) so there's definitely some unlearning and training-new-muscles I have to do, which I think is the gruntwork Dave talks about on the shows.

The current percentage of lead safe properties is between 25-30% and decreasing.