It is not a long term investment.Your best path to wealth is buy and hold real estate using leverage.

The woman knew early USSR culture first-hand, and was not at all ashamed to expose it and its obvious hypocrisies.

Meeting with wealthy middle easterners later this week.

It's really interesting to hear about other cultures, especially in terms of real estate.This tenant just moved in a couple months ago. 

The most succinct history I've found (there's a lot to unpack) is the walking tour from Cultural Tourism DC https://www.culturaltourismdc.org/portal/dc-neighborhood-heritage-trailsPrices jumped up just as the Wharf was being completed, but haven't really gone anywhere since then.

I believe they have the systems, processes and culture I am looking for.

Which is strange to me, since all Spanish cultures like goat.  

Wealthy parents (guarantors) paid for all the damage.

I've listened to a bunch of Rich Dad's Podcasts amongst others and took hold to "what the wealthy teach their children about money, compared to the poor and middle-class".

My current tenants prefer to pay in person, which I hear is a cultural thing in the hispanic community.However, I recently came across a gentleman starting a new cloud service that is appealing: Turbo Tenant is free for the landlord to set up, and there are features for vetting applicants as well as receiving online payments (http://www.turbotenant.com/#free-landlord-software) This guy's claim is that most tenants would prefer to pay online.