Monopoly taught us a valuable lesson we took for granted in terms of green and red houses and hotels, but the real key to the 'real' game is to change your perspective from being an earning employee to an entrepreneurial acquirer of assets - through your lifetime, and ideally, onto your heirs lifetime(s).Focus on asset accumulation, whatever the vehicle or vehicle(s), and you will see a vast horizon beyond your current 40k mental construct. 

Old technology, bad mentality. 

Could be good advice, but there's a lot more to consider when making such a decision, obviously.So is this anti-real estate mentality a result of lack of understanding, or seeing other clients' lack of success in REI?

I'm just sort of feeling like I'm spending too much time/mental energy dealing with folks who don't stand a chance.

As I said at the beginning, we all innately make these kinds of mental calculations all the time.

(Mental or otherwise.) 

He was a member of Wharton's faculty for 32 years, founding Wharton's Real Estate Department and the Zell-Lurie Real Estate Center.

I currently work for the University of Chicago as an Assistant Property Manager in its graduate and faculty housing department...  

Really just looking for any tips from experienced flippers to add to my mental notebook!

He says that work involves people visiting him (one at a time) for some type of mental therapy.