It's hard to stand out.There are some new owner-occupied segments with people who share motivating factors for selling their home.Seniors with Long-time Ownership: often ready to downsize or transition to assistance.Homeowners with Low Financial Stability Scores (FSS): Struggling financially and likely ready to cash in on their asset.Both these categories have additional advantages in that they probably don’t haven’t been updated and may have deferred maintenance.

If you do decide you want to paint the brick, Ask This Old House just did a segment on the best way to do so.

IMO, you would have to pick more specific segment of real estate investment before making a productive risk vs return comparison to the stock market.It's important to understand the return structure in real estate before selecting any of the performance metrics thrown around here and use them to compare to the stock market. 

But we just don't have enough supply, especially in starter home segment.

There's 799 of those.Now I'd then segment that list into several others based on the age of the owner, where they live, the equity, type of financing, etc. 

Hey @Elad Messing I'm currently taking level 3 of the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) program, which focuses on all asset classes with a heavy focus on equities, real estate being a smaller segment of the material.

If you live in Houston (spend most of your time in Houston) LIMIT research to just Houston and even to just a certain Segment of Houston - until you get your first deal going. 

I have been staying clear of that segment just for those reasons, while I am still relatively new.

And are you normally investing in this higher luxurious segment of the market and in Spain?

So the Mentally Ill were just left to fend for themselves.Take away most of the "Skid Rows" and the Mental Institutions.... well... you get what we have today.I have been thinking about it for a while, but Supply and Demand is working here, except that the supply of Affordable housing in respect to "Skid Row" type areas have virtually disappeared.So you have a lot of people who need this kind of affordable housing, but not much of that kind of housing is to be found.In fact, you have an increase in demand because of the recent drug epidemic involving Oxy, Meth, Fentinol and Synthetic Marajuana.I don't lean left but more towards Center, but I am trying to become more informed.I think there is merit in studies like these that describe the issue by looking at the history of homelessness.It's almost as if we have to have apts and homes that match the population segmentation as the POPULATION changes.In other words, are we just ignoring very low income people just because they cannot afford anything but a "Skid Row" type area?