Drive for dollars, pay dumpsters collector and mail men to find you distressed prop .( $10-$20 an address) .

Very few of these men were puritanical.Ben Franklin was quite the rascal.

Funny story - I once rented to a couple young men techies from India who actually shared a really tiny studio apartment. 

It is hard for anyone to convince me otherwise when I am doing it myself right now and it is working better than anything else all these "wise men" preach.Again as I said in the beginning, there probably are more ways to get wealth, but no one can tell me anything about how we are currently doing it.

Because he stands behind the work done by "his men"?

Let's all be fair, and ask the proper question:  Will the Property Insurance Companies, Property-Tax Dept, Federal, State, & City-Taxman, Electric & Utility Companies, Repair Men, Plumbers, Electricians, Water & Sewer companies, Medical Health Insurers & Drug companies, Oil & gas companies, and Lenders / Banks & Mortgage companies be giving US Landlords & PMs a break too?

But the reality may be that the middle men are making the most profit – even if not the most profit, the issue is that its an undisclosed amount of money ( hence smells like dishonest/ double dealing behavior).

Have had crew's up to 9 men.It's almost a full time job just supplying product,  let alone babysitting them.9 men can do 4-6  four Plexes in 6 weeks .But ,  yes it took half of my day to and 2-4 hours every morning or evening getting product.Every one of my guys were, self employed for the daily work and paid cash every Friday. 

Free up the provision of health care, lose most of the middle men and the costs will fall dramatically.

I am a member of Invest Club for Women (Men welcome too obviously) and they have two chapters, one local to me now in Studio City, CA (The valley) and one Irvine (OC).What i like is that in most meetings, there is a local RE investor speaking about their particular strategy rather than some guru coming in to upsell you.I also enjoy the networking - they get very interactive with this every meeting and I like the people that attend.The only thing I dislike is that the bar across the aparking lot (at the hotel) closes early often and thus, we have to drive like 1-2 miles down Ventura Boulevard to get drinks after.