Motley Fool and Rentals

[Bill S.]

www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/12/08/to-buy-or-not-to-buy-your-first-rental-property.aspx

This had some good points but I would say if you are only looking at 5 year return then RE is not your game. Also, they sort of assume no learning. That is, you would sit on an empty for 6 months. They strongly advocate learning about stocks, if you do the same with RE it's my opinion that you will be way ahead because of leverage. Slightly before I started in RE I also joined a stock investment club. My money there has an average annual rate of return of a little better than 10% return over almost 14 years (roughly doubled in value). Not bad since we started out before the tech bubble burst.

Due to leverage RE is significantly better than this.