Content Marketing: Produce valuable content such as blog posts, market reports, or video tours to establish yourself as a thought leader in the industry.

Rather than trading depreciating paper for a digital paper that produces a roller coaster of emotions, I'd rather trade it for REAL income-producing assets that appreciate over time and give me more paper.

.- Long term:  "I will have more than or about 5-10 cashflow producing assets making me 5-10k a month in profit. 

We can “split hairs” on this topic, but let’s just accept that our different experiences have produced a somewhat differing view.  

Not having to work in this example means having the 15 rentals producing enough cash flow to pay all their costs, including all 14 old mortgages and the 15th (new) mortgage that is refinanced each year.   

There is no debt service coverage when a property is vacant/distressed and in need of rehab to produce a rental income situation.

The issue with this is HYSA will probably produce better ROI for now.

The income it can produce and the networking would be worth it.

.- I was able to get access to private investigator software to find the true owners of these properties since conventional skiptracing produced poor results.  

I think the worst are the ones that will say they can do something for you or bring something to you then do nothing at all/fail to follow up or stay in touch (lack systems, organizational skills, and actual work to produce).