This is what stock traders would call "relative strength" which basically means given all the other investment choices of the moment, investors are choosing REITs.Again, its not to say these can't come down later on, but at least for the moment, it seems that some investors are actually running into Real Estate instead of away from it.How crazy would it be that the "real" risk in 2016 was not having enough real estate vs. having too much of it.  

I Publish a Forex Trading Educational site.

I'm a software developer and day trader, looking to get my feet wet with REI

Like a Grocery Store, Most Retailers, and even Real Estate Traders (a variant of the wholesalers and investors in the housing sector)?

I spent 15 years as a registered Investment Adviser and trader and we always preached maintaining AT least 3-6 months emergency funds (monthly expenses COMBINED) at all times. 

I know guys who are in Forex, Digital Marketing, Agency, Rei, Etc who are all easily in the top 1% and a lot of them travel full time. 

For ex, You can use the cash value in the policy, pay yourself back w/ the rental income, lump sum when you sell, surrender the policy.

First place i would try is auto trader and cars.com. they arent necessarily cheap because they're unreliable, but because they're higher mileage or a little older. 

Then he created ten more versions of the same book, packaged specifically for teachers, managers, salesmen, stock traders, garbage men, and astronauts.

But how about a cheap plastic pourover cone and some No. 2 cone filters for it, a little hand burr grinder, a gooseneck teakettle, the timer on the microwave, a cheap digital scale, and two bucks in Trader Joe's medium roast whole beans in a little fancy-schmancy jar?