Also, the rent amount may include the lot rent if these homes are in communities or land/lots where you pay rent for the home to sit there as well.

Them sitting on their hands means they get sued also. 

Even if you just take the money you would make letting your investment funds sit in a savings account, for instance.Buying with just appreciation... or even negative cash-flow means every expense a property incurs comes out of your pocket.  

Sit and listen to some of the panels maybe you’ll be able to answer the borrowers questions rather than steering towards an OTC product that doesn’t exist and wasting borrowers time .

That would be around $90,000 sitting in a savings account!

If the home sits vacant for one month, you lose an entire year of profit.Here's a very common scenario.

My cash savings are pitiful, sitting just around $5,000 as all I have to show for years of saving every possible penny. 

Houses can't be sitting vacant through the winters around here without the potential for serious damage.My main concern is flooding, for one. 

I suppose you could buy and sit on land, and that's relatively passive, but beyond that virtually anything else is going to require some level of financial inputs (maintenance, capex, value add) and time inputs (DIY, managing the manager, etc) in order to realize the best returns. 

I believe a lot of other people are asking themselves the same question right now and are sitting on the sidelines.