Most gurus out there tell you to buy houses and build a portfolio of houses and after ten years you have all these free and clear properties. It's pretty self serving advice because most people have bought a house and can imagine themselves easily buying more houses for investment, and that makes it easy for the guru to sell his/her courses. The problem is, once you get 10 or so houses in your portfolio you lose your life to landlording and the plan only works if everything goes right. If things go wrong, you get wiped out. What the zero down real estate investing gurus aren't so keen to tell you (because it doesn't sell courses for them) is that it's actually easier to buy multi-family apartments than it is to buy a house. They're easier to finance and raise money for, you can hire professional management, and actually make a lot of money instead of sacrificing your life to being a single family landlord and making a pittance. When you buy apartments you are truly being an investor. It's the best.
Leo
http://apartmenthouseprofitmachine.com
