My stock speech is this: The main difference between rental RE and any other form of investing for us mere mortals who aren't hedge funders is that this is the only market we can take serious advantage of borrowing leverage.

And the elevators are dreadfully slow.

As long as the fungal ecology of the indoor environment is consistent with the outside environment, no elevated health risk exists. 

Have that speech ready to go.They will also be scared.

I give new tenants a speech at the lease signing.  

I worked as a speech pathologist for a few years before I had kids, but have been a stay at home mom ever since we started our family 15 years ago.   

People seem to forget that as an owner you ARE the HOA, and I don't think most people realize that a good HO6 policy has coverage against special assessments.I will also chime in that an older well managed building (preferably without elevators) can be a much lower cost risk than many of the larger newer complexes in Denver many of which have had litigation against their builders already, and whose taxes are often double or triple.  

So they have been buying the old buildings and updating them to state of the art infrastructure, like smart elevators, gigabyte internet, data centers and co-locations.

So, how does one find an investor without time to do the "elevator talk"?  

I'm always bummed when I see this sort of speech from otherwise respectable businessmen.Just a word of advice: if you're going to chastise someone for "painting with a broad brush," you may want to avoid accusing anyone with conservative views of getting their views from FOX News.