You can afford anything but not everything. Every decision that you make is a trade-off

against something else. Saying yes to one thing implicitly means you're saying no to

another. And so the question is, what do you value most and how do you align your actions

to reflect those values? Answering these two questions is a lifetime practice and that

is what this podcast is here to explore. My name is Paul Hantt, host of the Affordable

Foundation podcast. Every other week I answer questions that you, the community, the listeners

have sent in. In some of these episodes I answered general questions about any money or

work or productivity related topic. And in other episodes, because I tend to get a lot

of real estate questions, I will occasionally dedicate a full episode to specifically real

estate related questions that you all have sent in. That way if you're interested in

the topic of real estate, you can tune in. And if not, then that's cool. You don't

listen every episode. So today is a day in which I'm answering specifically questions that

you've sent in about real estate. And our first one comes from Chris.

Hey, Paula. My name is Chris. My wife and I moved to Orlando in the beginning of the year.

My wife works as a manager for a YMCA after school program and I'm a flight instructor building

my time to become an airline pilot. Our dream is to build passive income through rental

properties over about the next 30 years. And so that by the time we're about 55, we want to be

financially independent, have about 15 or so, buy and hold type investment properties,

for me to retire from the airlines at that point with flight benefits. And from there out,

be able to travel and see the world without any job obligations outside of those

rental properties. The thought or the plan of how to do that has always been to purchase a duplex,

live in half of it, run out the other half, pay it down enough to be able to buy another one and

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