Basically, if you're living in a house that's paid off, you're turning down whatever it would rent for.
The first house will buy a second house.
Some of us prefer to invest in the marker instead of real estate.
A lot of people are successful playing the stock market. But I've never been a successful gambler.
Keep the majority of your money in index funds and it's not really a gamble...no more than real estate. Everybody gets scared when investors mention "risk" because they don't know the word has more than one meaning.
