My long winded question is this:What are some fresh new money-making strategies ( real-estate or not ) that aren’t on the hype yet, that don’t take much start up capital, similar to wholesaling before it got popular?

It would be very easy to roll up on a contractor who knows she doesnt know, who will hype that thing double of what it should be or more.

However, the guru himself may commit fraud by the way they implement the marketing/sales of the program, and the “hype” and promises they add to up their “conversion” rate.  

GP would still recover from all of these, they can raise new fund, create new company or even create new hype (like Adam's Neuman wework dotcom).Ok....

Here are 2 good, hype free threads on the challenges of getting started and investing in properties with deferred maintenance.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/48/topics/1159104-overl...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/12/topics/1171104-the-m...

I think it's still so new that you can be part of the hype and get a lot of growth in part of that.

There's a lot of hype about tenants' rights but you have just as much protection against this in the midterm space if you use a proper lease as you do in the long term space. 

But even Jimmy sometimes over hyped his program leading into some misleading informationForty one year ago my wife and I were visiting Jimmy and his wife at his home in Florida.

The "hype" of things is often more dangerous than the actual event.I think the FED who is smarter than me knows this.I don't think we will see sub 6% rates in the near future and that's a good thing.

Don't believe the hype of the media.