My faucet sink doesn't work at the moment and I can smell chicken curry being cooked by my cool Indian neighbors through the AC...

Assuming you have a budget of say $50MM+, I go after agriculture land, land with mineral rights and oil rights and ditch REI.

There are over 50 of them all fresh and new for the year in the cabinet along with oils, flours, sugars, some pasta and sauce, etc etc.People love that stuff and those kinds of simple things can set you apart.

.- Bike or walk to work- pack lunch and learn to cook.- Read a new business book or equivalent every week for years.- Amass liquidity as rapidly as possible.- Use that liquidity to purchase real estate or take shots at small business entreneurship.To more directly answer your question though, I think that the “live in flip” is one area that seems appealing right now, in Denver.

If anything I would say BH is an insurance company, but they do obviously have the real estate piece, oil and gas, apple, some big Japanese compioes, building suppliers like ACME brick, BNSF railroad, and I'm sure a lot of other pieces and parts.   

Providing all the necessities for cooking and cleaning up.  

Our oil company suddenly wouldn't service if they don't deliver so we had to find a new 24 hour service.

You need proper egress even to call it a bedroom so once you start venting cooking, lining gas, and doing plumbing, the town will be very tough and as I said, unlikely to want a single-family to become a multi.

Or are there courses that aren't snake oil?

Your software will be instrumental in running your rentals like a well oiled business machine.