To show my authenticity I tell them about a couple of my properties to give them a warm fuzzy or talk shop "do you follow Biggerpockets, MrLandlord, or some recent L/T law passed.  

If you can't do that, at least use a different password for your email service than everything else.b) Use 2-factor authentication.  

After listening to more bp I realize i am more gambling then running a business.

Play up the lack of light pollution as great for stargazing, and market it as a less touristy "more authentic" desert experience than JT.

Best case you may only be able to gamble on appreciation.

Also, travel, hospitality, and gambling will be hit hard for the immediate future4.

We also need sports gambling...

In the meantime, my in-law blew/gambled away a good portion of the money that insurance had paid him.

As a painful lesson that so many learned in the downturn, it is folly to include the gamble of price appreciation in our real estate analysis.

A key goal of mine is to have $50,000 in after-tax, authentically passive income - to travel the world, to take care of my parents one day, and to free myself from the unenviable position of being locked into a job strictly for the income, a debt, or the expectations of others.