It took a few decades to go from a hype to the backbone of almost everything from commerce to entertainment. 

Most fights last under 20 seconds and contrary to the movies one to two properly placed strikes can take someone out unless they are hyped up on drugs or other stimulants.

There were a few slight distractions like figuring out financing, selling a neighboring lot (that I had also acquired via letter writing) on Craigslist, rent out my RV, rent out my house, make my first ever documentary film (a twenty minute short called Kara, Star Of The World about a woman with a traumatic brain injury from a childhood ski accident), take any photo and video work I could get, start a 360 photography company, create social media channels to hype the build, parent two small kids, do a beautiful and excruciating tandem mountain bike ride across Scotland, drive my family on RV trips to Colorado/Arizona/Utah/Nevada/California/Wisconsin/Minnesota/Michigan/Florida, attempt to write a novel and adopt a puppy.The above may read as humble brag, it is not.

STRENGTHS-  strong affordable housing market-  cool city with a great feel-  nicely mixed neighborhoods with properties in need of repair next to nice homes-  large university, robust medical community-  decent rents overall, currently trading at 8-10% cap rates-  Micron promises growthWEAKNESSES-  Micron hype is making people spend way too much on properties-  pesky code compliance inspections here too-  student housing area is incredibly compact and difficult to get in to-  difficult to predict if a property will benefit from renovation or not-  contractors are overwhelmed, difficult to get estimatesSummary: Syracuse is experiencing a lot of change right now, in a good way.

Thanks for the reinforcement to not buy into hype. 

These things should NEVER be considered in an educational program much less a program that has self serving owners with over-hyped experience and credentials.Students have been squeezed out of deals that their coaches are involved with.

I invested some in crypto when the hype happened and lost most of it when I had to sell for cheap.

@Michael Elefante This is an amazing story, I feel the hype!

For example in Texas a finder is limited to a maximum fee of 10% of the net amount received by the beneficiary, thereby eliminating from profitability a significant percentage of deals.This is the same over hyped, over promoted, over promised, under performing opportunity as note broker, house wholesaler, etc.

In the last few months several of these new investors have bought into the hype of the huge cashflow to be had buying cheap, crappy houses in crappy neighborhoods in the Midwest.