REO properties on the south side are notorious for keys going missing.

Find a new job, banks are notorious for giving big titles and pay little money. 

I can't control a stock or mutual fund, so many things can make it fluctuate-- and you just have to go along for the ride.Your wife is probably thinking of the notorious 3AM phone call, so maybe push the idea of a property manager so it'd be just as passive as a mutual fund. 

Seminary and Webster are notoriously high crime neighborhoods, so you will attract a certain type of tenant in these properties and at these price points. 

On the other hand, if he does then you should be paying him for this service, nothing is for free even though real estate investors are notorious for thinking everything should be.I wouldn't be doing any business with anybody I wasn't comfortable with.

They are not oriented on killing people(well a few are but not many).

A rental association colleague of mine in Vancouver who owns 4 SFHs and manages his own property is notorious for bird dogging previous tenants who owe him money and he is quite successful in his recovery efforts.

Contractors are perhaps the most notorious of businesses to over promise and under deliver (next to politicians).

There are notorious companies/individuals who advertise wholesale properties who usually do not have those properties under contract.

Chicago is notorious for this.