What I suggest you do is something I recommend to most newbies, especially young men.  

This reminds of a History Channel series,  "The Men Who Built America".  

Cut out more middle men and error in communication.

It is hard for anyone to convince me otherwise when I am doing it myself right now and it is working better than anything else all these "wise men" preach.Again as I said in the beginning, there probably are more ways to get wealth, but no one can tell me anything about how we are currently doing it.

This is stuff for men who are both greedy and lazy.

Con men dont reform and become good people....

Just by looking at the forums, over 70% of RE investors are men. 

That is what I have been told by multiple appliance repair men.

Customers with good credit end up paying more when they use a "Broker" or Lender who are simply the "middle men".The other thing is there are new programs that only require 15% down for 2-4 units and almost all lenders and brokers require 20% to 25% or more for 2-4 unit multifamily investment purchases.

As one of my favorite men on this whole earth, Jocko Willink, is fond of responding when a seemingly unsavory thing /problem happens.