The last 10 years Santa Maria has outperformed Santa Barbara in home price appreciation (146% vs. 113%).

For any two apples to apples policy designs, the IUL will outperform a WL.

Get in a hot market and out-perform the rest.

Returns in real estate typically outperform the traditional stock market model.  

The latter will outperform the former by a lot.

Run your numbers and you will see that 2 cheaper homes will out perform one more expensive one.  

They are all coming out of a duration where virtually all of them out performed pro forma because of the incredible RE appreciation.  

So now, when someone searches that community and filters for pets allowed & hot tubs, there are only 21 hits, so our competition pool is less.Look and see what others offer and outperform them.As for long-distance managing, I'd recommend focusing on the human aspect first (great housekeeper and handyperson) as they will be more valuable than the tech side. 

Yes, the ROI could be lower (on paper) but I would argue that over a 10 year period this rental will outperform the C class properties that many investors desire.

You have some big iffs and upfront exposure though and the number of guys who think they have investment grade property in an investment grade location worthy of investment grade cap rates is significant.It is one thing for small guys using leverage with limited reserves to try and make things work at that rate and an entirely different thing for people who are looking to find a place for 1.5 Million--stock market volatile, stars pushing crypto, still no yield on savings or bonds to speak of...4.5% represents a pretty good safety net and even half that is still outperforming the 10y T note.