Rental Property Owners face a huge enemy today:  The Federal Government, which delights in creating new rules, regulations and rulings that take power FROM property owners like you and me, and redistributes that power to tenants, “housing advocates”, and of course, to the government itself.  How do YOU shield yourself from this onslaught against your rights as a property owner?  I’m Bryan Ellis.  I’ll tell you RIGHT NOW in Episode #206. Hello, SDI Nation!  Welcome to the podcast of recover for savvy self-directed investors like you, where you learn, in bite-sized chunks every day, how to find, understand and PROFIT from exceptional investments. My friends, here in America, a prevailing attitudes that has been taught by our public education system and reinforced by the media to the very large group of Americans I call the “oblivious lowbrows”– these are the people who have practically zero worthwhile knowledge, skills or experience, even though some of them have some or even substantial formal education – what these people have been programmed to believe is that the true EVILDOERS of the world are those awful RICH PEOPLE whose gain is undoubtedly ill-gotten and achieved on the backs of the “working man”… These folks – the unaware lowbrows – they are convinced that those RICH PEOPLE should be punished and that property and wealth should rightfully be owned by SOCIETY rather than those conniving, manipulative rich people. The result? An explosion in rules, regulations and rulings that virtually never favor property owners like you and me.  A good way to know that you’re dealing with a rule, regulation or ruling that does not favor you as the property owner is this:  Does the word “Fair” appear in the name?  You can always bet that the word “Fair” in a law means that the government is shifting the balance of power AWAY from the “RICH”, and towards the millions of oblivious lowbrows in our society. You might think this doesn’t apply to you since you don’t see yourself as “rich”.  But whose perspective determines the definition of “Rich”?  Again, it’s the oblivious lowbrows.  Take as an example of this group, a woman named Jane.  Jane doesn’t have a job, but she’s not really “unemployed” in a conventional sense… she’s got income and her basic needs are provided for.  She’s compensated – by the government – to do absolutely nothing. Most or all of Jane’s housing, her food, and her medical care are paid for by the government.  The same for her children… in fact, the more children Jane has, the more she’s paid by the government.  And Jane knows how to work the system, too… because she’s a product of it.  Jane knows that she’s eligible for even more stipends and pay from the government if her children fail to reach a certain standard of academic or intellectual performance… and thus, she’s unmotivated to emphasize education… because it certainly wasn’t emphasized to her. Jane is unmotivated to change anything about her life because her basic needs are being provided without her doing anything whatsoever. Why’d I take so much time describing Jane to you?  Jane is relevant to you as a rental property owner because the rules, regulations and rulings I mentioned at the top of the show are written to motivate Jane to vote for the politicians who support the programs that support Jane. The educational system, the media and Hollywood are willing accomplices in this process, feeding Jane and her ilk an incessant flow of propaganda that the problem is NOT Jane, it’s NOT her unwillingness to work, it’s not that she and tens of millions of others like her are happy to subsist simply by sucking at the tit of the federal government… no, what Jane is taught, and is happy to believe, is that the problem is the RICH PEOPLE who took all her money. Yes, Jane believes that the money should be hers, and that it was somehow taken from her. And it’s from JANE’S PERSPECTIVE that the word “rich” is defined.  You see, to me and you, “RICH” means Bill Gates.  It