But then we have all of these guys online (marketing), or Rich Dad Poor Dad, talking about how real estate is a ticket to passive income, etc etc.

I just finished reading Rich Dad Poor Dad, and I’m more motivated than an ever to make my first purchase.

Then create a patio/entry for each lower unit by a simple screen of an above-ground planter from the post to the stairs, or maybe at an angle to where the stairs begin.The rest is comparatively very simple... don't paint the brick, do the siding in a darker dusty green, the window muntins in a very dark gray (it'll match the black powder-coated hog wire balusters), get a very LARGE round fake attic vent for the gable,https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2196/8707/produc...and install a clete at the bottom of the gable which will look like a horizontal supporting member for the second-story columns.Lose those shutters, paint the entry doors a very deep, rich color, with the first and second story doors slightly different.

Most of all, I want the freedom of creating my own destiny a la "Rich Dad". 

Although I don't consider Rich Dad Poor Dad necessarily a real estate book, it's what started my journey to this website inevitably.Currently I'm stuck with limited resources as I'm floating somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea somewhere, but I've already completed a few eBooks from Jay Scott, David Lindahl and Brandon the founder of BRRRR. 

@Harry Walker I don't want to go of on a rant here but modern day wholesaling (which is typically nothing more than assigning a contract) appears to have morphed into the new get rich quick plan for many or its the new way to get started in Real Estate with "no money down" so many people that I come in contact with and who on occasion attend my meetups want to use wholesaling as a way to get the capital needed for their first property.

And all the SF investors I know who have owned rentals for awhile are rich by now. 

I've been listening to the Flipping Junkie podcast and reading "The Business of Flipping Homes" by William Bronchick and Robert Dahlstrom and I can't say enough about the book Rich Dad Poor Dad.

These statistics are taken from Stop Acting Rich by Thomas Stanley.In 1988, when Stanley first started compiling these statistics, as detailed in his book Marketing to the Affluent, the figures were 98% and 2%.

Thanks to Rich Dad, Poor Dad I do now and may have done things differently.