A smart owner of a construction company spends little time hanging sheet rock and more time in the office, returns phone calls, gets estimates done in a timely manner and most importantly follows up on leads and existing customers.

How to hang your toilet paper?

I just hang out with them, find ways to provide value, and they will do the same in return.

There are lenders out there that will do 6month seasoning I'm doing one now.. that only leaves 2 deals a year unless you have alot of cash hanging around.

Now I’m not saying don’t go into real estate also, but take the low hanging fruit of employer matching contributions and then start working on real estate... there’s even books on how to do it with low or no money down by @Brandon Turner so it isn’t like contributing to your 401k is going to not allow you to do real estate.

The article doesn't talk about wealth...it talks about investing in the stock market with financial advisors, most of whom have no idea what the market is going to do beyond "over time the returns have been 10%...just hang in there."  

Ok so if you get a real estate agent license do you have to hang it with a broker? 

We quickly learned that students will always opt for paying less, but won't actually shovel the drive (adequately) - come February the build-up of ice at the mouth of the driveways would be sufficient that their cars will hang-up.Similarly, we handle mowing of lawns and raking of leaves.

After the first year they usually hang around 7.5-8.5%.

Looks like your location is a burb of Portland ,might have been a place they shot dope still hanging around ,lots of times it is neighborhood  folks that are hooked on dope/need money fill in the blank.The location  looks good get it behind you sale it !