I read this book, was skeptical given the gungho attitude, so I did some due diligence:  Roberty Kiyosaki claimed to have founded a company that went public.  So I figured Kiyosaki was a rare enough name and searched the SEC records to find out if this was true.  Was unable to find any evidence that he had taken a company public, and so he lost credibility with me.<p>You meet really entertaining characters in bars sometimes too. They are fine for entertainment but don&#x27;t take them too seriously.<p>Putting money to work for you is wise, good advice and there are better books for it.  Like &quot;The millionaire next door&quot; and &quot;the wealthy barber&quot; (a little lite but a good intro) and  &quot;Buffetology&quot; and &quot;The dummies guide to REITs&quot; and the like.<p>Managing real estate yourself is no small task- you have tenants and a lot of work to do for them. Putting an agency in between you and the tenants means you may be giving up a lot of your profits to the agency.<p>The best thing that happened to me, though was I started reading <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mises.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mises.org</a>.  There in 2000ish I learned about how the fed and CRA were going to create a housing bubble. And the consequences of that. I invested along that thesis in the mid 2000s, getting out of the market in 2007 when things were too crazy to make sense (missed the top by a year, but still good timing.)<p>Macroeconomic understanding (And I don&#x27;t mean what politicians talk about or the politically connected people like Paul &quot;we need a housing bubble&quot; Krugman) has been very profitable for me.  More profitable than any stock tip.<p>Also gained a lot of insight from attending Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meetings, but now I just read the annual reports.