Buy a fourplex so you have a place to live and three rentals to cut your teeth on.

With more focus on the inflation of the money supply, investors are allocating less to Treasuries, pushing bond prices down and yields up since they move inversely.Mortgage rates which are closely tied to the 10-year Treasury yield, are rising as those yields climb.

YUP minimum requirements.. although you would be surprised how many folks cannot get a bond because they lack credit score.. this will weed out the really poor players and give state a vehicle to regualted those that violate the laws without all the grey area currently.

As easy as this sounds, it's not simple and usually like pulling teeth.

At some point the gov bond market drys up, the gov becomes desperate for cash, and anyone with deferred taxes looks like a fatten cow ready for slaughter.  

You will make a better return with less risk keeping your money in a CD or bond. 

As used in this Section 18, "Interest in the Property" means any legal or beneficial interest in the Property, including, but not limited to, those beneficial intereststransferred in a bond for deed, contract for deed, installment sales contract or escrow agreement, the intent of which is the transfer of title by Borrower at a future date to purchaser.If all or any part of the Property or any Interest in the Property is sold or transferred

So I say, I say “Wait a minute… How come REI supports income streams so much better than Stock / Bond portfolios if it has the same return as stocks?”

Baby bonds. 

of course he would never state this is so many words, but the bond market will be parsing every word looking for clues.