Interesting interview and useful advice and I've even caught myself saying "Suck it up, buttercup" a couple times :)Let me tell you what, people have been saying that phrase to me all week "Suck it up buttercup"It's not a catch phrase of mine really, but apparently it's got a sticking effect!

I have made most of my net worth via RE but not by much as I have had a successful career (engineer) and have done outstanding in my non RE investments (stocks, mineral rights). 

Will they keep "moving those goal posts," while the herd is arguing over "grazing rights" to the ever shrinking tract of grass, water and mineral rich land?

No mineral deposits left while it dries. https://youtu.be/kZkYnkXOI7QCostco leasing to own programBuy a powerbank and charge it at work.

. - I call myself a lottery ticket miner.

The Salt and Gila River Project (basically repeating what the Hohokam did even using some of their old ditches), and the Central Arizona Project (diverts water from the Colorado River at Lake Havasu to Pima County and Tucson), have both been a disaster because of so much evaporation as the water travels across the desert, and the remaining minerals in the water making it basically useless by the time it gets to its destination.

I thought I was diversified into 3 areas that would be unlikely to get impacted together but due to a strange coincidence the one that should be unrelated to Corona (North Dakota Mineral rights) is more beaten than the ones related to Corona. 

I’m providing a place to live for a family while creating wealth for mine.

It turns out that it's an old mining/railroad town, and the railroad or the mining company, I forget which, had easements from way back when the town was formed, under the ground of the town, so we wouldn't have owned any minerals or water or whatever under the property.And, they had the right to come and start digging under the house and yard if they ever decided they wanted to, or to drill for water. 

And, the title report also included the information that the railroad owned all of the mineral and water rights under your house.