[MathYouF]

Why don't you rent out your car on Turo when you're not using it, or resell your items when you're done with them rather than throw them away? I suspect, for the car example at least, it's for similar reasons. The liability of damage and hassle of managing a tenant is greater than the potential upside of rent for them.

[wcfields]

If the property is to park money and with US real estate you can liquidate it very quickly for a cash sale, a tenant will throw a huge wrench in that.

A tenant in a single unit/house will easily drop the price by 10% or more from my experience trying to buy a single family home in SoCal in 2016.

As well, who can afford to rent these units? The mortgage/break-even point for for a $8mil value would be $37,825 a month.