Tenants have certain formulas for rent to sales ratios to be healthy.   

As a newbie with very few folks around me physically that venture into this, you are keeping my optimism high while temporing my enthusiasm with healthy doses of logical reality.

I normally can have a good healthy communication with my renter.  

We were at 80% occupied last year and very healthy cash flow .

@Jay HinrichsOnly if they give me more rent when they are healthy!

But then the bigger and more important goal is to grow to much more than that over time so I can GIVE considerably to charities, start ups (especially social cause ones) and self fund my own creative ideas/imagination within healthy limits/hence having our incomes being replaced first.

I've seen property in the area sell at 200$/sq. foot but that's top of the range on a very well done property in a healthy market.

You have more benefits with that than you do an IRA and getting checkbook control is very easy.There is no one right answer to the OG question, but I personally believe that a healthy combination of the two is best.

The problem with this country's health care system is that all the Big Corporations lose too much money with a healthy country.1.

To me, paying off my house quick made for a nice healthy goal to reach for.