Hell, you can go to a nice steak house and buy yourself a dinner, then get home and realize you could have cooked it for yourself and saved money.

If you can include him on simple things regarding real estate that would be good(Not sure what exactly you have cooking in REI).

If you don’t cook, would  you spend money learning how to boil a pot of water on a stove?

Sub $50k houses work well as the snake oil not only for the "distortion by contrast" effect you outlined but also from a basic practical sense in that it's hard to find a lender on that asset class (which would require inspection/appraisal/professional eyeballs on the deal). $50k is also conveniently too big for small claims court but not big enough to interest many lawyers.  

It's a peppermint and clove oil spray.

If you feel like you are scraping by, you might need to downsize the apartment, go out less, eat out less, cook more, etc.

It is typically caused by excess humidity (showering or cooking) and can be resolved by teaching the tenant to use ventilation fans and airing out the home once a week for 10-15 minutes.

Add a very diversified economy here with banking, insurance, oil and gas, education, three medical schools, 3 law schools, life sciences, DFW airport, and so much more, it looks like the growth just goes on and on.As far as appreciation goes, that's always tough to predict. 

I had made my goals while cooking for thanksgiving . 1- I already run my net worth numbers every month and for 2025 I want to increase my net worth by no less than 20%.

Irony of your analogy is that oil and gas production needs to drill many holes to succeed.