I myself prefer the DIY approach learning style, but as Cody stated everyone is different in how they digest knowledge.   

I understand the concept of money working in two places at the same time (because the loan is from the insurance company, not your cash value, which is only used as collateral and continues to receive compounding dividends) and that you’re using the loan proceeds (the insurance company’s money) to make other investments to generate a return (because now you’re earning money on the cash value that is always compounding and the ROI from the new investment), but I’m having trouble digesting some actual, real numbers where this makes sense.  

Hold on to this cash cow, milk it, pull all the equity out in a cash out refinance, which is not a taxable event, put it in a trust, and hand it off to your heirs.Or if you love the velocity of money and are looking for the biggest bang for your buck, sell it.

The wrong team turn a "cash cow" in to a "money pit."

You can get great ideas too from Architectural Digest, which I take, but generally the homes featured are not the run of the mill investment properties, just a tad nicer, LOL!

Here are some numbers for you to digest. 

And two, it started my curiosity for real estate investing and sent me digesting everything I could about the real estate game for the last 18 months.

You can read as a daily digest or on the website.

lol. yes, he does. the guy has terrible customer skills.just look at a sample response from him:"Yes you can have a pool must have fence around pool and you are the one they come to if anyone drowns I would not want the liability if I was you"reminds me of my realtor who also can't write worth cow dung.

But they did come out to inspect it on one property.The Ins Co we use picked up on the WBFP because if was documented in the original sales 'listing' posted on-line.