If my choice is to stop investing and keep working my W2 forever or keep investing and risk playing a tiny role in a larger societal problem, I'm going with the latter.

I have a opportunity to purchase a tiny home that a co-worker and I worked on.

My debt payments are tiny.

The majority of SEO people will use mostly white hat - but then use something called "private blog networks" to obtain powerful links predictably, at quantity and without charging an arm and a leg for.

A lot of these podcast guests fall into one of these buckets:-Started with a bunch of money-Made most of their money selling education before buying deals-Don't actually do nearly as many deals as they claim to-They own a tiny piece of a bigger deal (LP)I still listen to podcasts a lot but you can't let the guests "successes" demotivate you.

Many wholesalers I've interacted with all have the same problem: Quantity over quality.

SW thats on the west/north side of the river is good, the tiny sliver of SW on the south/east side of the river not so much.The public housing in SW near the stadiums is an issue, and will likely remain so. 

You don't need high quantity but high quality properties to produce steady income. 

Compared to what you did which was househack a small  multi and the absolute best way for someone to buy their first property full stop.while there will be sub to deals out there they will a a very tiny fraction of the RE market as a whole so your fishing in a bucket instead of the lake..

You can partner with people if you want to scale more quickly, but at some point you will need a property manager as handling a large number of properties (eg dozens) and working a full time job isn't feasible for most people.Also remember it is about quality not quantity.