University and college housing is a good investment to start with, verify that the students pass background checks and have a guarantor for each one, some institutions also require first-year attendees to dorm at the university (Harvard, MIT, etc.)

From your description it sounds to me like a casual read, much like reading a book on Henry Ford or Eli Whitney or other successful people, probably not the text used as the curricula for a business class at the Chicago School of Business or Harvard..Moving to the level where our OP is striving to attain I'd say he needs to concentrate more to graduate level classes, analytical studies, modeling, market testing, analytical finance and economics.

It came from a Real Estate Management Graduate class from Harvard last year that I took.Enjoy!

I get the impression when I talk to him that he thinks he's superior to me (he's a Harvard graduate, 10 years older, and a lawyer - need I say more?)

Please call the Harvard professor who wrote... 

I literally drove an hour to Cambridge, Ma and found books on marketing in Harvard's book store.  

Did you think you were going to be dealing with Harvard educated millionaires??

It was published in the Harvard Business Review and later expanded into a book.

I have been doing business in the Cleveland markets for about 10 years, ( GH MH, CH WH Lee Harvard, Euclid, West side North of Storer, )  more then 500 deals for about 32 million.

PM me if you like, I'd be happy to discuss it with you.Remember these two things.....TAKE ON NO SIGNIFICANT DEBT (really, take on NO debt...there is no need)Choose a REGIONALLY accredited college (accept no other accreditation) All of your state schools, Harvard, Yale.....those guys are all Regionally accredited.