Now I don't know if something systematically changed to have them drop lower but that would be ridiculous today. 

When those things are done correctly, it works beautifully, and you can certainly become wealthy investing in RE, like most other things in life.Unfortunately because of the Feds monetary policies over the last few years, they have essentially promoted a re-hash of 02-07, and there is no shortage of people on BP who promote the SAME ridiculously high leverage program as Gurus, and then turn around and bash those Gurus systems for being irresponsible. 

3) The idea that you are going to pay someone $10-$12 per hour to do all your maintenance is ridiculous.

You have to give credit to anyone that chooses to try and run this country and take the scrutiny and open up their lives to the ridicule and insult.

It's a little long and ridiculous to me, but it works.The comment at the end about state approval is not accurate.The Realtor Association in a state works with their lawyers to get a contract organized that the Realtors can use successfully.

I drove there, found that property within the city was taxed ridiculously but that property right outside the city limits was beautiful, very cheap and had reasonable taxes and excellent returns on cashflow.

Your inference that I cannot add to one persons learning because it is not my market is ridiculous to say the least.

My goals are huge, so huge that I hate informing people because it's RIDICULOUS income; but why dream unless it's going to be so annoyingly huge to others, right?

It's completely ridiculous. 

The only clients I have worked with that lost money are the ones that did not listen to me, became arrogant a$$holes, or had expectations that where simply ridiculous.