My properties are mostly SF Houses & Townhouses or Townhouse-Style Duplexes, so no properties where one tenant's ceiling is another's floor.

Unless you have software that will teach a renter how to put a screen back into a window or get them to properly maintain a yard for once...

He now teaches real estate "seminars" which tells you everything you need to know.  

The main thing with real estate investment, from my limited perspective, would be to find the niche that best suits your investment style and personality and learn everything about that niche and do it as well as possible while continuing to learn and grow both your business and career.

I want someone with proven success with style, content and timing to do a turn key campaign. 

And in a catastrophic downturn you can lose a property or two and not hurt your retirement life style. 

For me, it is a single family ranch style home with 2/3 beds and 1.5/2 baths that smells funny and needs the carpet ripped out.

I suspect now its going great one of the centers was BRAND NEW CONSTRUCTION.. but the 600 homes that were suppose to go in next door got shelved. in a 08 style melt down NOTHING is immune some areas trundle through other areas its mass extinction. 

Let's meet up and connect so you could teach me how to get started in REI :-) 

I recently attempted a 2 second Canadian style brrrr with a hiccough along the way.