You'll get more value from setting $5,000 on fire than you will from paying for real estate investing information. but depending on the people, paying $5,000 to be around them might be the deal of the century. 

Mostly immigrant labor here especially for the big builders like Century, KB Homes, Richmond American etc.

In fact, we just closed a new buyer on a beautiful turn of the century duplex in Duluth allowing him to househack the upper level. 

Recently the rates were the highest for this century.  

That got violated today.2) The M2 money supply has shrunk by >4% in last 2 years, anytime it goes negative in last century, that has a 1:1 correlation with Recession.

The quality of modern lumber is simply far inferior to the quality of lumber they were using to build homes in the early and mid-20th century.

Gold by comparison is truly supply constrained and has been accepted as a medium of exchange for centuries.

Data over the last century shoes REITs have a correlation to stock market returns. 

So if correct then we are looking at higher 10 Yr yields/cap rates for a very long time, like most of last century.

I really need to step up my rental game to the 21st century.