Recently started looking into real estate investing as a way to boost my return. 

He also said they were trying to figure out ways to get rid of content farms and artificial crap to boost rankings that has nothing to do with the best content.Google probably has some of the best engineers on the planet so it seems like the spammers and quacks are fighting a losing battle.

The amount of work and information needed goes up dramatically depending on the accuracy you would like.  

Either this is True or dramatized.

After about 45 mins of dramatics we found out that the final pieces of paperwork could be added to the package the next day when the closing company in my local county would review the paperwork for final approval.

I wanted to see if I could get more leads.She gave me some bad news(for investors), saying that number of foreclosures has dramatically decreased this month.  

That was over 10 years ago and . . . agents are still around and access to data for the public has increased dramatically.    

Just get the next one down and you should see another decent boost.

No, it just means that the author has a threshold whereby the risks associated with borrowing outweigh the consequences of not borrowing (despite the seeming implication that this is never appropriate).This is no different than intelligent investors who make the decision that using reasonable amounts of positive leverage to boost returns or provide the ability to complete a deal is worth the inherent risk associated with that borrowing.The views presented in this article about leverage are akin to "zero tolerance" rules.

I'm sorry it's been so dramatic and uncomfortable for you.