It is easy to provide well-intended 'bad' advice.My questions to you would be... 1.

In my experience, most mom-and-pop investors lose a lot of money due to poor management of tenants, as well as poor/deferred maintenance.

For reference, we're heavily involved in the co-living space, which is an unorthodox strategy but can perform exceptionally well with the right property and systems in place.

Agree Google nmls - funny on Facebook where 99% of private lending groups that are public are scam artists you get the "well license isn't required"I reply to this noting that while you are correct in some states - chances of a scammer with a nmls license are less than 1% while those without is 99% on sociale media 

“Ok, well, what if these economic signals are not a sign of a normalizing economy, but of one that may be approaching recession….?”

If this keeps reciprocating well with the community, I'll keep doing them.

Thank you and to you as well with your future endeavors. 

I'm new to Fairmont and just reread Rich Dad as well. 

Make sure every investment is solid and that you know how to manage them well.

Even if you go "vertical", that tends to require an architect as well.