Although not as flashy, in the real world, the typical successful investor has excellent credit and can borrow money from the bank.

Lots of flashy cars, and clothes.

Those poor show boats can be bought and sold by the truly wealthy who have true wealth measured in net worth not income.Long ago I was a car salesman in an area considered upper middle class, day after day those people would come in wanting to purchase big, flashy sport utilities.

They didn't care about flashy cars, expensive furniture, and the big house.

You need to be professional, and this certainly includes your business cards.Non-Business-Related Business CardsAnother type of business card that’s not right for the job is the funny or flashy one.

I think a flashy car is a mistake for self managed properties.

It does work but you have to make it flashy

Airbnb, like the Ubers, GrubHubs, and other VC backed imposters pretending to have a business model simply used the same play of pouring cheap money into flashy marketing and lofty, if empty, claims about changing the world. 

As far as the flash... I

I guess those flashy you tube videos, where he tells you it's just 4 walls and roof make it seem easy and if you don't know better it'd be easy to believe... but still how did so many people just plunk down cash and blindly trust?