Example owning a SFR house where the tenant might call you for a clogged toilet at 10 p.m. after you have worked a hard day at your profession and are exhausted.ORThere are other methods which allow you to be more hands off but the returns vary and the amount of cash to get started does as well.

I wanted a 18% p.a. return & a NNN lease, so t's been a goldmine.

So I have 2 friends with money and we've put together a pretty good plan for building a buy and hold business and them getting safer, secured returns on their money.

Any smart investor recognizes a broker that is an investor themselves wants to get the highest return on investment.

I'm losing the appreciation but it's still a nice return and less of a headache.

Do some research and find out where you can SAFELY get the %ROI return you want.

It would appear that putting money into the place in terms of flooring, new kitchens/baths, or the like at this juncture wouldn't yield much return so I think you are wise to keep your repair costs low.

If you're looking for the best returns and don't mind doing work yourself, turn-key probably isn't your best bet.Basically, it's an apples to oranges comparison...

Always best to have a full time income.But if you can't get much, much better returns from real estate than stocks than something is wrong.

This worked fairly well, I was buying REO's renovating them and putting S8 tenants in the units with average return from 17 to 25% cash on cash return.