I guess I am too chicken s**t to learn/risk REI passive investments. 

I bought it when I first started out, and it gave me a great framework of forms, procedures, etc to make it feel like I was running a business and not running around like a chicken with my head cut off (you still will, but you'll look better doing it!).

RentPlus property will go up 20 % if it were in Phoenix every year.( Can't buy a third of a chicken coop for that in Phoenix)  !!

@Cameron TopeBut doesn't it just become a chicken and egg scenario?

To my surprise he said yes and invited me to Las Vegas for a Mike Ferry Seminar witch was last week from Mon - Fri...

This area has some of the worst dirt in Dallas and many homes in this area had some of the first foundations that I call the chicken wire foundations.   

The next and this may have changed due to improvements  but we had gas dryers and the ignitor glow bars would fry due to particles and lint attaching to the bar.

It's not a chicken or egg argument, there's clear cause and effect here.Allowing them to pitch tents on sidewalks, park wherever they'd like and live there, or live under overpasses isn't compassionate or effective (I realize you're talking about a different subset of homeless, but let's be honest. 

Reading this book for me was like being hit in the face with a frying pan. 2.

Say, let me just say take your pick, the AVAC market is flooded with great companies more than qualified to take own such small fry.