A better way to create true passive income.The whole idea of investing in an asset is to let the hard earned money you have accumulated over the years, work for you, to let it grow for retirement,on its own, without having to invest more time and energy.

I was going to a sub-tier law school accumulating bad debt.

Basically, the seller is stealing future appreciation of the property and charging interest on it until the market value and financing plus your equity (repairs, maintenance and other factors) meet, depending on how much you over paid will determine when your equity begins to accumulate.

Once I accumulate a good deal of cash, I will reinvest it into other deals such as rehabs that I will sell to retail buyers.

Suddenly I looked at the shelf of my library of hundreds and hundreds of books I have read and accumulated since my early 20s and I noticed a very interesting trend of particular books I owned and started to realize what my deepest passions truly is.

We then over the course of a 2-3 year period had accumulated 10 dirt cheap condos.

Sorry.Hard work and making good choices is an essential part of accumulating a vast fortune. 

(For the purpose of this discussion, let's define "success" as accumulation of money/wealth) Not at all a trick question...just curious your opinion...

Instead, he spent trillions of our tax dollars (30% of the entire national debt accumulated in the past 300 years!!!)

It's been a gradual process that accumulated through many terms and with the policies initiated by many in an attempt to appease the general population.