It could however be a baby steps thing - assuming we instate financial literacy courses at the higher levels, we could graduate to making it something that encompasses all four years of high school in some form.

The landlords duty of care is gradually encompassing not just tenant but the public at large.

To encompass the complexity of investing in real estate into books would be equivalent of trying to fit the vastness of an ocean into a standard bottle of water.

A typical semester is 15 weeks, so that means the typical college student will have 15 * 15 = 225 class hours per semester.Don't forget that a typical school year encompasses two semester, so that's 2 * 225 = 450 class hours per year.Going back to our $20,000/year tuition costs, that's an average of $20,000 / 450 = $44 per hour for college in this country.If you're paying $50,000 for training/mentoring, you would need to be getting over 1100 hours of face-time with you teacher for it to equate to what you'd be getting in college. 

That encompasses a huge area though, so I'd like to hear from experienced investors what sort of radius they use in doing their cma.

It gives me a good picture of the cash-flow in the most recent fiscal period (typically a year), but to carry that forward 2, 3, 5 or 10 years encompasses as many assumptions and predictions as does calculating an internal rate of return.Now, you can discount future cash flows and endeavour to calculate a series of CoC values ... or, perhaps an average CoC over a period of time ... but you are now getting into an exercise which is not entirely different than determining/projecting a rate of return :-)  Naturally the cash return is a component of overall rate of return."

  $150k can get you a decent multi-family (2-4 unit depending on class) in one of the three major cities that encompass the Lehigh Valley; Allentown, Bethlehem, & Easton. 

SEC rules encompass many different topics.

For those that are interested, this encompasses 21 different properties, 30 separate rental units.

Set goals that encompass these different dimensions.b.