Pray tell, what substantive facts are you in reliance on?

Betting on the government reliance is not a great end game. 

My short term goal (5 year) is to hit a freedom number and exceed $2500 in cash profit monthly so I can eliminate my reliance on my practice and transition full time to real estate.

Reliance on Free and Clear Sale.

For the sake of my own productivity and self reliance, what are some methods you guys have used to find deals outside of the MLS? 

Indeed, this crisis may make us rethink a lot of things; how debt-based our economy is, reliance on foreign trade, particularly with China, etc.

A million dollar life insurance policy is pretty amazing if your family is broke, but as investors it's likely that most of us will already leave a significant nest egg behind when we pass, greatly reducing a reliance on an insurance policy.There is nothing wrong with insurance, but people need to stop implying that an overly complicated IB strategy will out earn other investment methods. 

I know some of the people building those giant buildings downtown, and while I am not happy with the style of the buildings the city allowed them to build (I am extremely conservative when it comes to architecture styles, and would prefer they were 100% faced in brick and not these weird mishmash things everyone builds now a days), or what I perceive as a lack of parking and over reliance on a luxury market, they are going to do quite well for themselves, so on that front it is hard to argue.

No, probably not, at 60% LTV, yes that may fly with less concern.Much of it will be about the deal, the parties, collateral, LTV, and how much reliance there will be given to an audit trail of the transaction.

Long story short policies and things are happening in certain areas that are pushing away strong individualistic or even capitalistic tendencies in favor of reliance on government and lack of individuality and grouping in a way that is almost communistic in nature.