Comment by dbish

The concept makes sense, but the specifics written here seem oversimplified and are going to mislead people. Realistically, it's not easy to turn a single vending machine or a purchased content website into a largely passive source of (significant) income for most people. Likewise, real estate purchasing is speculation in many cases and you can end up on the wrong side of that like many have in the past, losing everything when they can't rent out a place and they lose their job (like what happened in the last real estate downturn to many folks). Absolutely agree that if you are using debt, use it wisely, but I would have loved to see more specific and nuanced discussion of how to evaluate options for doing so.