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I think you have a very skewed perspective of assets, let alone physical assets (which housing is).

A store that owns its own real estate isnt generating cashflow with it. This is the equivalent to a Homeowner living in a home.

If you are deadset on using intangible assets, it is the same a company holding a drug patent and producing the drug. Cashflow comes from sales, not the patent.