Depending on a person's situation, the persuasion to sign up with a guru can be pretty intense.  

This obviously doesn't help the person quitting cold turkey, but can be very useful for those trying to quit "the habit" of smoking.I never smoked more than a few a day, but getting rid of the routine (i.e. not smoking in my car) followed by cold turkey after I had quit smoking in certain situations worked for me.By the way, I'm twice the basketball player I used to be since I can now breathe the way I'm supposed to again!

So when she attended an information session for Robert Allen's "Creating Wealth Through Real Estate" seminar in New York last year, she was more than willing to pay $2,495 for Allen's intensive three-day course on real estate investment strategies.Concerned about not having enough to retire on and wanting to pass along some wealth to her kids some day, the 62-year-old New York City educator said to me then: "I am convinced that real estate is the way to go."

Taking a couple months of intensive researching can do the trick to start investing.

One thing that has been holding me back from pursuing residential assisted living further is that my perception is that they tend to be pretty management intensive, much more so than standard rental real estate managed by a property management company.

But again, the management of that might be too intensive...it becomes an active business like a hotel. 

But he says the management-intensive nature of the investments "almost" makes it not worth it.

Almost went into a intense remodel project on a triplex but the work needed to be done was a little too much for me.

495 rents a door you will be dealing with a very intensive tenant base.Multifamily is overheated right now.

I played a lot of basketball, so ‘stretch’ and ‘big man’ showed up at the beginning.