[arwineap]

You were lucky to not have to deal with vacancies, non payments, turnover, rehabs, or capex. I don't think your experience is the common, and it certainly won't scale like that.

One tenant losing their job, getting some sort of medical issue, or even a poorly trained pet can reverse 2 years of profit. These happen all the time.

Personally, the keyboard jockeys talking about how easy contractors have it is hilarious, so I guess we both get a laugh today

[estearum]

If you buy in an area with appreciating land values (i.e. most of them, given the dynamics of land and population), then you have to be a dummy to lose money owning land.