You can't call up Apple's CEO and suggest improvements, but you can definitely upgrade your rental property's kitchen to command higher rent.

YUP anyone advocating this to the public is not doing the industry any favors to many bad apples and even if your the holier than though trainer etc etc.. the students are such that you cannot know who is going to be a bad apples and screw people.. having spent 40 years lending money to investors .. its the nicest ones up front that end up being bad apples.

(I am a silent investor, the developer is doing all the heavy lifting, and we split profits at the end)

Check out investor lift, there are sometimes good deals on there, but make sure you vet the area and try to get a due diligence period on your offer, a lot of the times you can trust their ARV or their take on the condition of the home.

Sure you can argue 1031 exchange and such, but again apples-to-apples, you will end up making more money with stocks and with much little headaches. 

Then the last 25-50k I'd diversify with - whether that be apple stock, nvidia, btc, or a rental properties.

But that's a big IF in 2025.The approach that I take now is to let market appreciation and inflation do the heavy lifting for me.

My friend all it takes is a bad apple. if you are asking, you are lucky you have not gone through a bad experience-Evicion. 

After all that some get the AHA moment that this business is not easy while others still think that its picking an apple from a tree. 

This is to prevent actual spammers from blasting our PM system.I've lifted your ban.