This resulted in a slight uptick in vacant stock to 5,626,000 square feet.Employment growth in Los Angeles was modest at 0.3%, slightly below the national average.

You may be dead in the water. 

@Jimmy RojasReturns in real estate have historically matched the stock market - so use that as a reference pointJust like investing in some stocks builds wealth faster - so does real estate and vice versa

Still working on timing my transition from stocks to real estate.

Balloons coming due with higher interest rates, China market, China production, Manufacturing production moving back to the US, Worker shortages, Workert pay hikes, Ukraine/Russia food and fertilizer misses, Oil prices increasing due to the OPEC Q1 production curtailments in place, Houthi issues, Panama Canal Water issues, Illegal immigration impact (buy one of those office buildings and rent for $10mm per year for Illegal housing, take advantage) social benefits required, Climate change believe it or not- Buy or sell into that thought process,  US politics, Baby boomers leaving workforce and needing more benefits, Baby Boomers moving from Stocks to Bonds,  etc.I agree things will get worse, but that means more investing opportunities. 

There are good stocks to buy and bad ones.  

The rates are usually higher, unless you secure it with a CD or stock portfolio or something.

The sweet spot to get the interest is 6%, the 5.5% is where activity starts but 5% & sub is where the real activity starts and starts coming to that 5-6 month housing supply stock in my opinion.

They need your dead leads when you can not get the deal w/I your margins.  

But if you look at annuities, they are an insurance product, not as much an investment product.What insurance companies do with your money you invest in their annuity is put it in the stock market and keep the difference of what they pay you and what they make in the stock market.