JOhnH
Touchdown! Greaser!
That would have been good advice for me,This all is why I say, "buy your last plane first" or at least the one that is going to do what you need a plane for for the next 10 years. The whole "upgrade plane" method of getting into what you need over a matter of a few years is more expensive than the insurance hit you take on the first year operation of the more capable plane, even if you have to go to Flight Safety to train (since likely you have to anyway even after 500hrs in other stuff, and you will still have a first year hit regardless). Plus there is the value of being up to full capability a couple years earlier.
If i knew then what I know now. But if I followed that advice when I bought my first plane, I am quite sure I would have bought the wrong plane anyway. But at least I only bought one starter plane, then without losing much, and with a lot more knowledge, I bought what I think is a keeper.