On the other hand, rental income properties can provide steady, long-term income streams with room for appreciation.In your shoes, I'd start by evaluating my goals as an investor.

Like an employee.

All kinds of businesses have employees who drive their vehicles.  

Contractor and employees kicked up 50 times more dust than little ol' me.

But like with any company, you have outstanding employees and you have those that are so so.  

To discover suitable investment opportunities, it is crucial to conduct thorough research, analyze local market trends, assess rental demand, consider job growth, evaluate neighborhood dynamics, and anticipate potential appreciation.

It obviously depends on where you're looking to invest, but there are tons of great tools out there to help you evaluate a market (AirDNA, Rabbu, etc..).

., pressure test rent assumptions, look at market absorption and new construction, evaluate capital stack etc.).

We're thus able to evaluate our rates, and keep pace with inflation, on a monthly and quarterly basis.

RV parks are evaluated more like a regular business than most other real estate sectors.