To your point, passive real estate investment returns tend to form a bell curve, with a few underperforming, a few overperforming, and most falling in the middle of the bell curve.

I tend to agree with@Rick Albert here that we need more info.

Most people who are affected by rent tend to be on lower socioeconomic rungs anyway and thus have less political heft to swing around.

Structured LearningReal estate tends to attract people who have shiny object syndrome.

We have used it in our business but I tend to agree - if it shuts down and pushes more traffic back to youtube I think it would end up being better for us. 

These tend to attract more reliable tenants, and the properties generally require less maintenance.

Booking.com tends to be more hands on since you have to setup up a payment processor and take payments from guests.

Good summary of what your market is looking for but as we all know, each market tends to have its "wish / want" items which differ from market to market.Flow is definitely a selling point but make adjustments come with a cost. 

I've learned a lot from talking to RE attorneys, since they tend to be on both sides of those partnership deals.

Another example of this is Newark, extremely strict laws making land lording a second job.When finding the right area to invest, towns with more lenient land lording laws and proximity to public transportation tend to be a receipt for success.