To be clear, growing wealth in this fashion is less passive, but still way less work than a W2... may be a few hours a week at the most.

Use your own savings to buy boring real estate the old fashioned way. 

I have done thousands of deals since 1999 buying and selling vacant land, so I definitely understand where you're coming from.I find a target area and criteria, and then source my data from CoreLogic (a division of First American Title).

We are talking about decent hard working Americans that don't make enough to live in Munster or St.

I want to buy properties (soon, I'm just closing one right now) below market value but all of these American methods that I read so much about are either blocked by law or under the covers in Ontario!

I WILL name names - American Express.

i feel it's being played out correctly by everyone. the UN is standing up and getting angry, the americans are just shaking our head but not getting involved and the people of iran or fighting.

The lenders have more lobbyists than the do American citizens. and especially poor or middle income real estate investors.

Insurance agents are typically taught to sell products in a slam bam thank you maam fashion.

I like to start with a good old fashioned google search, you can plug in the name of the business you're looking at and see if anything negative or positive comes up, there are also scam and forum websites where you can make sure there isn't anything alarming.