We have 3 rental properties that produce 8k monthly in total on average.

#7 I almost think you are trying to get a perfect property with no work or effort on your part, that is easy to manage and will be hands off passive investment.   

I have a full time job in  a totally different field and I manage 2 properties.

In total, this all cost us about $15,000 after cleanup and water remediation.Flood #2:We had the unit listed for rent and everything was looking okay.

RE used to be so foreign to me until I went to a RichDad event I was totally mesmerized by the idea that I could possibly... own RE!

So while you may get several numbers for an individual, not all numbers will still be active for that person so the total accuracy rate will go down.

Firstly, well done for persevering and trying every avenue you thought would get you the data you needed.Most would have caved earlier and handed out there hard earned cash for old, saturated leads/records from the same prominent platforms which dump them pretty much when they receive them from either 1).the same large brokers AFTER the county has listed them on the county website or, 2). from the counties themselves directly AFTER the county has listed them on there own website, or, 3). from data scrapers on Upwork/Fiverr who scrape the data from those same platforms AFTER the counties/brokers sell those platforms the data being scraped by the freelancers.Anyway, rant aside you seem to of made the same mistake i made when I first started branching out away from providing leads to my original couple of clients i got from Upwork who wanted me to scrape data from court records in FL for pre FC leads.Simply, I didn't know where to look for the information I needed in states outside of FL.FL only allows the judicial route to foreclosure so I only needed to know/find/scrape the data from Lis Pendens documents for counties they requested.

In total, I won't be able to rent out my unit when I need to and I won't be able to sell unless I take on a heavy loss.

Hers was a partial interest (8% of total ownership) in the property within her self directed 401k.

Flipping is probably a little more intense, but can still be done with a day job, but again, my average flip versus my average rental: flip has made much better returns.And as for generational wealth and handing down something to your kids... well, I guess I view it as: if I can hand my kids a $10mm trust fund held in public securities, or $10mm real estate portfolio, they are going to be pretty set either way, but a real estate portfolio will continually have costs and work, a brokerage account is a bit more set and forget, with some periodic rebalancing.