 so it was nothing for me to replace 3500 with some rent houses nothing at all very simple right two and a half years later i completely replaced my income i had absolutely no need to go to work anymore because i was making more money in real estate but what was not understood at the time even by myself was that i would make more money every year thereafter for the rest of my life and what happened is is that i took a spreadsheet and kept track of what i was earning