If your plan is only buy appreciating properties and gambling on the market to keepGoing up, we all saw what happened to those investors in 2008.

And there are so many scummy slimeballs everywhere selling their "courses" that don't take the real world into account because of their lack of experience or just plain fraudulent morality where they know anything sells if its hyped enough.  95% of the "courses" are rubbish and are just regurgitated material than anyone with a bit of reading or experience knows already.