Some OZ Funds seem to be selling investors on the tax hype, charging high fees, and not thinking much about the actual real estate investments.  

These things should NEVER be considered in an educational program much less a program that has self serving owners with over-hyped experience and credentials.Students have been squeezed out of deals that their coaches are involved with.

Some other areas of Cleveland are really hyped and don't command these rents. 

This is an odd place, we have little agriculture (too much sand too little soil), little industry (not a lot of natural resources and not very close to the northern markets), and lots of hype.

It yelled at me "coach" or "author" or "guru", it's the style of the hype, the presentation that always gives them away.

I would be interested to see if you have a testimonial like that, not just hype numbers and talk. 

In many cases this is in fact what spurred people to make a change in their mind and choose a different path.I can see how if you are beyond that point in your life how they can be uninspiring and fall short of the hype that you expected.Hope this helps to understand where people are coming from when giving reviews on this book.On a side note, in college they said there are 3 buckets of information.  

His "educational" materials that I ordered were completely worthless (for me), and just hype to sell more stuff.  

I think there are two valid points here.If you want to grow the business and your wealth faster use leverage. it can add more risk but you will get a better return in the majority of places.If your goal is to retire with as little passivity as possible don't get all caught up in the hype of you need a good return that's important yes but it isn't your primary goal in that sense it is stable income for as little work as possible. high dollar hours vs smaller dollar hours.If you have 10 paid off duplexes that cashflow 16000 a month and net 8000 that is a hell of alot less work then 40 leveraged duplexes that provide the same income just better returns in potential appreciation and better equity pay down. in one case you make 6 figures with probably 10 hours of work a week most likely alot less if you are good at managing and selecting tenants and in the other case you would work 4 times as much for the same income soaking up all that valuable time you could spend with family or other activity your like(passion hobby ect.)

I feel like millennials will start shying always from ‘hype fads’ to create a more humble teenager to adult