Skip the pre-packaged tools and build your own, focusing on the fundamentals.

We will skip tax advantages, as this case by case and too much math to make argument here. 

I “house hacked” 2 bed and breakfasts for 24 years.

So we have gifted nieces, nephews, family friend’s children money for their college fund, and some select charities.my son recently has talked about a few paths in a couple months: 1) green peace 2) continue formal education in Europe (he is fluent in German and has some Spanish but can pick up languages fast - he got this from my mom (skipped me)) 3) RE investor, but he does not have an understanding what it means to be an RE investor.  

And some just skip the rentals all together and just make HML PML buy debt etc etc.. thats more my speed..

No need to skip the step unless you plan on dying in the house.

Or you can skip trace their tel number and talk to them over the phone. 

If others want to skip the hard part and invest in crypto or lottery tickets, you'll win by being patient.Hope this helpsGood luck

If all 3 units are roughly the same value, then you are only getting 1/3 of the total potential benefit.There's a lot of technicalities I'm intentionally skipping here, to distill the core issue. 

He also owns propwire.com which I currently have a free account that shows the history of the property and allows Skip trace for a fee.