WP, you already know that having something of our own is the point.  I am not sure whether the deal will last a year or 20.  I don't have anything to lose and everything to gain.  I was one of those guys that was setting around waiting for something to fall into my lap until I lost my job 2 yrs ago and had to sink or swim.  I make less than I ever have and have built more in 2 years than I have in my lifetime.  I  won't ever have an inheritance and had nothing to begin with.  When I got of my bum and started taking some risk, I started building something.  It's always easy to say someday I am going to do this, it's a helluva lot harder to actually do it.  When opportunity knocks, I have to answer.  WP's iron is an investment because he buys it for pennies on the dollar.  Much like myself, most of his equipment appreciated as soon as he wrote a check for it.  Too many people get caught up in keeping up with the Jones's and blow their head off buying the biggest and the best.  I don't care about the Jones's, I just want buy something that makes me money, I have been pretty successful thus far.  That being said, I can either rent my equipment and pay for it as well as put some money in the bank every year or I can sell it and pay it off and try to re-invest the profit in something that will show the same return.