You are missing the most important thing you can buy yourself,an education.You need to meet with professional wholesalers who have been doing this successfully for some time and ask them how they do it.Apprentice yourself to them for free doing their ground pounding work learning the business as a young college student intern would.Learn how to put together a large list of cash buyers and flippers who need the properties you find to sell them.Learn how to carve out a good territory to farm that has several homes sold in the last two years for top dollar prices and sold the fastest (less than 30 days).Learn how to use postal workers,utilities people,and others to spot bad houses that might be able to be bought cheap.Use high school students involved in sports teams or band to seed your farm with cards and fliers door to door at every property and give them a tax deductible donation to their groups.Promise them a bigger wad of cash if you sell a house they bird dog for you(tax deduction!).

In your case, a repeated theme Kiyosaki mentions is that "business is a team sport" (and if you're the smartest guy on your team, your team is in trouble).If you haven't read it, I'd recommend Kiyosaki's book Cashflow Quadrant as it explains his idea of E-S-B-I (employee/self-employed/business owner/investor).

No matter what the economy, our weather, locations on the coast, amusement parks, sports arenas, employment opportunities, educational institutions, medical facilities, and so much more make California popular. 

Multifamily is a team sport for a reason.

Obviously that is going to be clubs bars and sport centers/ fields .

If their "sight unseen" offer is accepted, then they look at it and evaluate......no real risk.this is trueit does show that the real estate market in general is quite warm right now though. i wouldn't say its "hot" overall...maybe in certain sports and areas.

I work nights at ThermoFisher Scientific as a Technician 2, as well as I am also into bodybuilding and powerlifting sports.

I don't need to own multiple sports cars, a yacht, etc (but we do want a second home overseas, live overseas part time and have full control of our time.  

There are dichotomies and synthesis in this sport which is only evident to seasoned investors; those of us who have seen people come and go, rise and fall - those who have experienced it for ourselves...What you are saying is true, but only if you have perspective, and only if you're able to read between the lines..

the 2nd association it resonates is the highly consumption-driven society we live in. in my area (coastal, urban southern california) i'm surrounded by 2 distinct lifestyles. there's the majority: seems like 95% of the local population who are renters, driving luxury cars, sporting fancy clothes, jewelry, hairdos, etc but obviously living paycheck to paycheck as exemplified by hardly a day somebody or the other is spotted  getting their car repo'ed by a camera crew. the rarer are the landlords, who in this area seem to be of mostly asian demographics (chinese, koreans, japanese) who live obviously very frugally: old 80s model sedan, oldfashion business cloths, always eating simple meal from home, seemingly never splurging $$$ other than into expanding their portfolio), my observance is relatively very few landlords in the area own relatively huge portfolios, each.with the advent of these infomercials and the internet (ie, BP) more and more people want to get a 'piece of the REI pie' and more power to them. there does seem to be this dream of rags to riches and while its ok to dream, do most people actually expect their life to turn around like that, as portrayed in most of the infomercials or even in the everyday setting where the masses living paycheck to paycheck, are spending their last expendable dollars not on depositing into savings acount, but blowing $20 on scratchies etc. in summary, is my observation reminds me of my days when i worked on wall st and the 'ra trace' was so obvious with dime a dozen stock brokers makin 6fig salaries at some point but blowing it on recreational drugs apparently costing thousands of dollars a pop to the point the next week they are broke again and that $ wasnt invested but wasted.