And second, a random investor is probably investing in things you might never touch (and so get a completely different answer than you would).There are four different strategies: core, core plus, value-added and opportunistic.

Not only his marketing is sketchy as other people in here say but his program is just a group with people talking about random stuff, no value provided and that's my personal experience. 

Don't trust just one random inspector opinion.  

You've been around this forum long enough to know the difference between professional advice and random opinions.

Just because random taxi drivers told you the housing market will crash a few months after it crashed doesn't mean that economists and other experts are wrong.Here is yet another chart that paints a different picture than the random chart you cherry picked with no cited source which I am AGAIN calling out here...does it paint an exact 18 year cycle picture?

I'll have to go and check the exact wording on a few random ones.

A couple of random things to consider...The loop is very office ish (if that's a word).

However, the difference with living in the US is that, in Mexico, if we go to the grocery shop or our kids go to school, we don't run the risk of getting randomly shot at."

Slightly random thoughts:Computations of present vs. future value are inherently uncertain--anyone know what tax rates are in 2047?

@Abby Flynna few random thoughts-definitely stay local (for now) - you have a lot of great markets within a couple hours of where you are-it's very difficult to 'start' with a flip - flips take capital and you're going up against all the professional flippers who flip as a business-go to all the local REIA meetings within a 1-2 hour radius - find the ones you like - go to those regularly-call lenders and discuss loan options.