It's human nature not to factor in their time, nor large episodic real estate expenses etc.almost forgot this table chart from Mary Callahan Erdoes , she is the head of JP morgan asset management which has hundreds of thousands of high net worth investors, They are quite stringent when comparing their own investor's returns to other Asset classes

In general, expenses related to the purchase or improvement of a rental property can be deductible, but the treatment of these expenses may vary depending on the nature of the expense and applicable tax laws. 

This concerns me as the investor appears to have very little skin in the game.

I once heard a stock market investor say there we’re basically two ways to invest, either betting on broad market trends or basically hand to hand combant, finding stock’s that for whatever reason were basically mispriced or had arbitrage opportunity, I think the 2010’s were basically a rising tide lifted all boats kind of market, this is definitely gonna be more hand to hand combat, finding misprised deals, mispriced sub-markets (I’m a big fan of more rural areas that simply just by there very nature have less competition and more ability to create opportunities) and focusing on execution.  

The tangible nature of property investment, coupled with the potential for rental income and capital appreciation, offers a balanced risk-reward ratio.

If you change the nature of the land you are actually creating 4 new pieces of real estate. 

The efforts that projects of this nature take are massive but the results are more than worth it.https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2023/11/27/columbus-home-for-human-trafficking-survivors-harriets-hope-to-open/71625032007/One-of-a-kind home for human trafficking survivors to open next month in ColumbusDanae KingColumbus DispatchOn Friday, survivors of human trafficking will walk into their brand new home: a place where each fixture and detail was chosen especially for them by fellow survivors.The home is Harriet’s Hope — named for abolitionist Harriet Tubman — a 52-unit housing community that can host multiple families and was designed specifically for human trafficking survivors.The one-of-a-kind community comes out of a public-private partnership that brought together Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost; Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA); CVS Health and OhioRISE, the CVS/Aetna-owned Medicaid program; Beacon 360 Management and many others.The Dec. 1 opening of Harriet's Hope, a community on Columbus' West Side whose exact location isn't being shared to protect survivor's safety, was announced at the Ohio Statehouse this morning.A call to actionThe project started a few years ago as a vision of Celia Kendall, the CEO of Beacon 360 Management, a nonprofit real estate developer and management firm based in Columbus with 28 communities across Ohio.Kendall got the idea for Harriet's Hope after being unsettled by what she saw doing street outreach with women being trafficked six years ago."

A down payment is skin in the game.

Heating costs go up in winter, as does electricity due to the reduced natural light and more people indoors.

Hard Money Loan - I do have a nest egg (40K) to put skin in the game along with the majority of it coming from the HML.