I work on my properties some and I manage them myself...but I hire out the vast majority of the physical work.

In fact, the vast majority of wealthy people I have met in my life have a combination (in some cases ALL) of the following things:- Real Estate- Stock Portfolios- A sizable cash position- A business- A successful, high-income careerSo, I certainly do not want to knock stock investing, and am and have been throughout my career invested significantly in the market.What I hoped to argue in that article (and I believe that I was a bit immature with the headline!

This is just a regular turnkey property like a vast majority of other turnkey properties in an area popular for rentals. 

Add in that you can contribute small amounts at a time and the investments are 100% liquid it becomes unbeatable for the vast majority of people

i think the process goes a little like this:Number of landlords < Number of tenantsWhere < means "Vastly less than"Corrupt politicians say "We have no legitimate reason to get involved between landlords and tenants in this situation but..."

I could probably think of a hundred questions to address and I'm a complete novice in this arena.Long story short, you're a 22-year-old kid with zero knowledge, experience, or capital looking at a project so vast in scope that 99% of the commercial developers in this country wouldn't even try it.I hope you can prove me wrong.

This is not someone new to real estate but has vast business experience and is sitting on a $3M exit from a sale of their old company.

I see a 4 plex pop up on market maybe once every couple of months and its always vastly overpriced.

If you name the most famous person on earth that you can think of, a vast portion of the population still will have never heard of them.

You do realize the vast numbers of engagements that end (25%)?