I know this doesn't answer the question, and I could regurgitate what I read and hear, but instead I'll just say the only thought I have is anyone who speaks about the future as if they have any clue is trying to sell you something. 

I hate the antcipation of waiting for a new book to come in the mail and after reading through it realize it is just regurgitated material.I love to read investing books and want to know which book was most informative, aspiring, or helped you in your REI career and why.

You see EVERYONE regurgitating that advise, and you that don't know better will think.. well if everyone does this it must be good right?

Although many here ar savvy, most regurgitate completely ridiculous things, that someone started saying.I made my fair shares of errors wholesaling because I believed what the masses told me and did, despite my core instinct and logic.Sure ask for advice listen and consider.

But us BiggerPocketers don’t we look at the facts before rushing to judgement or regurgitating what the uninformed crowd does?

All they do is regurgitate what everyone else say and somehow they start believing they know how to!

are people that either have no clue on REI (hence they are on BP to learn) wanna bees that regurgitate old old erroneous info to make it appear they know a thing or two... and others that are successful yet with inferior systems where they have to work at it day in day out to maintain that success.Look for proof, look for the graphs, look for the numbers!

People simply regurgitate this because they heard it from others over and over and over again.The absolute best way to get leads (other than SEO) is do to paid ads.

All the ads I see, both of FB and Google, feel like an ad, smell like an ad, sound like an ad and I see this from the big companies out there and I really wonder if they truly know ANYTHING about marketing (other than what everyone regurgitates).

mhmm very interesting i can not speak for the country as a whole but i know that the other day i saw a report on cbbc about warning signs of another collapse in housing because miami phoenix and riverside ca are all very hot now with high prices etc... they also said houston and denver are also high but they are explainably high because of recent local growths in the economies based on small business growth etc.... the warning factor was that it was what happened before the last collapse phoenix miami and riverside were all hit the hardest during the collapse because they had an unnecessary inflation in home values that wasn't backed up by any actually growth spurts in the economy...now i know i may sound like a fool regurgitating cnbc but i watch every day that the NYSE is open for business and a lot of the things they say are BS but than again a lot of it is often pretty acurate and yea if i could go back to when i first moved to tucson (2009ish i think) i would have bought a few 15k houses on the south side because now there all going for 90k move in ready or even 35-40k still needing a bunch of work and people are buying them...