@Jeremy Rhodes - like one of the other posters said, you use your high W2 to get multiple rentals with good net cash flow - that means net income after ALL the expenses, income that is offset by depreciation to zero taxes (basically you get money in your wallet while on paper you have to pay zero taxes ).

Originally posted by @Kiel Martin:Watching a customer kick me out of their house because I was not done in 10 minutes, and labeled me as an idiot, was a true eye opener for me.

Resilient real estate markets are safe for investment, and it’s tremendously important that Toledo keep that label through policies like the proposed lead law that match standards in nearby suburbs and comparable Ohio cities.Toledo is the only Ohio city in the hot-housing market top 10, and Grand Rapids is the only Michigan location on the list.

The facts without your negative labels and preaching to save the children would have been cool.  

I slowly and calmly reached for my wallet, and pulled out my .38.

No, guns are not evil, Evil people are evil and they just happen to use guns for evil.People see what bad wholesalers do, and they then label the entire wholesaling strategy is bad, or dumb in this case.What I am fighting so hard for people to understand that wholesaling is a legitimate and sustainable strategy.

I bought a property early on where my eyes were bigger than my wallet. 

The last turnkey co. that I work with is trying to sell me a house with K&T wiring and labeled it as turnkey house :) LOL , the other one is selling 4 BR house while title is only having three BR.Some indicator of good turnkey co. : they have a process in place and did an independent inspection prior selling it to us. 

Obviously wasn't expecting a curveball like everybody got with the pandemic, but I certainly didn't cross my arms, quit, and label everybody who what's further along the road in real estate investing as greedy rich heartless animals!

Keep this nugget in mind; the entire '08' crash came from the MBS investment scams being played out of labeling junk as AAA via packaging 4-60% of junk with a sprinkling of AAA kind of like a nice cream-cheese frosting on top of a big cow-pie.