Crimes data, etc. does not come even close to telling the real story about reality on the ground.

The reality is, it can be very simple. 

I can go on a long, long winded post but the reality is a lot of people's mistakes are the lessons you can learn from.I started out "investing", not REI, but just general investing in 2005.

There will be opportunity in the next year or two as real estate prices adjust to meet economic reality.

Definitely a consideration when thinking about the reality of refinancing. 

So, faced with the realities of working with a residential realtor and having to do all the above themselves, they usually choose not to invest in real estate.

And, here's a harsh reality:  you mean nothing to the tenant...their caseworker is the one with the power. 

We are coming to the new era where company that sells virtual reality , virtual real estate and AI like Nvidia , Meta or Microsoft ; and also "virtual" coin like Crypto is valued way way higher than real actual tangible real-estate like office building , apartment building and so on and so on for example the level of valuation for office building is like a wipe out.If the investment climate continue like this where there's no relevancy between investment and tangible or the real word , how conservative real estate investor like us should react ?

I have been interested in investing for quite some time now and am trying to take steps to make that a reality.

But you can get value out of all of them if you work them right.The reality is, for profit or non-profit, all REIAs have costs to cover just to operate.