Are we that lame that we cannot survive NOT going to the Mall and the Cheesecake Factory for a few months?

You can have success in any market, but you need to know what you're getting into with lower end markets/properties before you do it, and choosing a market just because of the price/value factor is not where you want to start.The FIRST question you should be asking is "what do I want my investments to do for me?".

From the ceramic tile factory, to the rubber mats for cars factory, to the tress factory to the chicken processing plant to any fast food place or store to the hospitals and care centers, they are all hiring!  

If all of us would follow Robert Kiyosaki's footsteps and own a business, a factory and appartment buildings, we would not have any emplyees, workers and tenants.Ramsey is speaking to the large majority who prefer a steady paycheck and he tells them how to do best within those limitations.

I want to eat, breath, sleep Real estate I am 25 years old and I have no excuse’s on why I can’t or shouldn’t thrust myself out into the real world and not some factory.

Look for cities attracting big employers from other states or new factories/warehouses.

As Texas has had to pay Elon Musk to Open a Tesla Giga Factory in Texas over $1.1 billion in waived property Taxes many Engineers will move Modernizing Texas's economy.

They spit loans in and out like a factory so they aren't as strict.

Intel is a great example, who is building the largest chip manufacturing plant in the US right here, and it will be a $20 billion dollar investment that brings a few new thousand jobs.https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/01/21/intel-ohio-building-computer-chip-factories-licking-county-jersey-township/9173472002/ Another example of economic growth is the upcoming Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Inpatient Hospital which is a 1.9million square foot hospital that will bring over 800 new beds and a thousand new jobs. https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/new-osu-hospital-expected-to-transform-health-careHere are a few more recent investments https://www.10tv.com/article/money/business/hydrogen-power-company-hyperion-bringing-700-jobs-to-columbus/530-25907aab-5517-4661-a9f3-d2ed2d5be6b0 https://news.wosu.org/news/2022-02-08/rumpke-to-build-50-million-recycling-facility-in-columbus Check out The Complete Guide to the Columbus, Ohio Real Estate Market which goes through the Columbus, Ohio market in depth and will give you a better scope of where the highest levels of growth are taking place and where to look to invest.

I worked in a factory, climbed telephone poles, and repo man in a mining town (Interesting situations-shoulda' been more Jim K sized).Then I somehow got involved with sales of large computers and enterprise software, which I did for 20 years and had my own software company for 25 years until I retired 5 years ago.