It’s really their disbelief that it’s possible to successfully invest in RE and own/gain lucrative profits .. without saddling yourself into an over extended mortgage for ur entire life.

As for how you are going to raise your kids everyone has their own style.My number one goal was to pay for my kids collage education so they were not saddled with student debt ..

I did not want to saddle them with student debt and as a parent and businessman this was one of my proudest moments that I could afford to do that.

Because otherwise I could saddle any one of you with the property by filing in your name and address on a quit claim.  

There are also local Toledo landlords who absolutely suck at the business and should be outsourcing (before they fail completely and end up being the next sales listed online).Property management is not car repair where you are simply comparing your own labor / material costs to your local Tireman quote...with a car you can throw parts at the problem until it's fixed and more importantly the car never knows if you are cluelessly streaming youtube videos to figure out how to replace a starter.Property management is more like caring for a herd of horses...they know darn well if the farm hand trying to saddle them knows what they're doing and they smell fear from a mile away.

By following the 'correct path' the middle and working class saddle themselves with lifetime of debt and wonder where things went wrong.So, no easy answers.

Oh, and then shortly thereafter I got saddled with $800+ water bills IN THE FIRST YEAR AS AN OHIO CASHFLOW INVESTOR.

If part of that cool million was from work at a college , then you should give that money to those saddled with student debt ,SOCIALISM DOESNT WORK This extra unemployment is the beginning of the road to socialism . 

Those that make the model your talking about work are Hands on locals doing it all themselves and pay cash for a lot of what they buy so they are not saddled with debt.

I don't want to knowingly saddle myself with two money pits at the start of my investing career.I've taken J.