wow, everyone has lots of great advice,and I see people saying save money, and when I was younger I thought that was the way to start too,but if you get a job and save as much money as you can in the next year to two what is the most you could possible come up with?

Continue pressing forward because there is a rainbow on the other side with a fat pot of gold aka your money.

Well it can in my area considering 3 bedroom rentals start at 1500 a month.  

And a basic principal that if one gets into the business at least cobble enough money together to put up EM... and be proud that you can... 

If I could go back and do it all over again, I would do exactly what Joe is advising and I would be sitting back, fat, dumb and incredibly happy as a multi millionaire.

You can get a bad tenant in property a block away just as you can in one 2000 miles away.

Weight is about 183 so want to shed off about the last 15 to 20 pounds left of fat.

I didn’t want it to be too lengthy so I trimmed some fat.  

I think China has one advantage: they can control the population much more than we can in our "free" country and were able to shut down solcial life very effectivly and quickly.

During the 2008 crisis, he was a big buyer but we also know he used convertible preferred equity (with a fat coupon) as a way in to many high quality companies.