Just pretend you're a tenant prospect and call the landlords and ask these questions. 

Pretend you lost your job..What if any loans are available for an individual with 20% of his purchase price+closings and reserve funds but no W2 income.

Pretend you're hiring a PM Company.The PMC would collect the rents, pay necessary expense, take their fee and then pay the rest to the owner(s).Just don't trust your brother - have seen many onsite relatives convince themselves they deserve more and start skimming.

We're closing on our first STR next month (yeah!) and need to get the property set up for renters. Please tell me about some of your favorite STR furnishings/kitchen items/bedding/towels/security gadgets/etc.  Put on ...

A MTR is just a long-term rental with a different name so someone can pretend they've come up with something new.

But I agree that we sometimes need to call a spade a spade, and stop pretending that it's OK to let an ever-growing portion of society live off the contributions of others without expectations.

Real estate is so massive that every person will have their preferred method. that being said, here's my preferred method. syndications. invite as a passive investor and watch the cashflow come in. this also allows you to leverage large multifamily deals and not worry about finding the deal, finding the investors, etc. plus you can get tax write offs.I would absolutely buy a house and lake house outside the investment strategy. that goes back to a Rich Dad Poor Dad philosophy. never buy liabilities before you buy an asset to pay for it. lets pretend you cant invest in a syndication. man, I would look into house flipping now. learn and MASTER that process. create a business of it. grow it. take the cashflow from the business and buy your house, your lake house, etc. or put an extra step and invest in a syndication, lol. 

If your parent wants to sell their house, do you want Joe Smith to sell their house and pretend to care about them or you.

You’re not a doctor Phil nor should you pretend to be one on tv.

Usually collected as part of the application process.Fraud: let’s not pretend it doesn’t happen.