Let's be honest, it's only a matter of time before a company like Zillow starts offering nationwide a full suite of products including PM services, at a fraction of your cost, and puts many of you out of business.

It looks AMAZING -- but only a small fraction of that yield is guaranteed (about equivalent to keeping your money in an online savings account), and an index fund will perform better over thirty years.

The debt treadmill and fractional reserve banking keeps the rather dysfunctional system going.

@Santos Gloria, If it gives you any encouragement, my 4 rental units only replaced a small fraction of my monthly income from my former corporate job.

We also used a home equity loan AND a HELOC in 2007 to buy two pieces of land that are now worth a fraction of what we paid for them.  

Despite a downtrodden market there are some people who have begun to turn their attention to fractional ownerships.

Maintenance is only a small fraction of the total expenses, and much of that's created by the tenants, so the age is only a small factor.That said, if you try to use a property that's in poor condition, regardless of age, as a rental, you'll have more maintenance expenses.

“That’s only going to continue to grow.”E-commerce sales make up just a fraction of total retail sales in any given year, with some statistics putting that number at 9.1 percent in 2017 and growing to just shy of 10 percent a year later.

I have worked all my numbers and the deal is only good if I can get the property for a fraction of what they are asking.

They offer several comparable brands of memory foam mattresses for a fraction of the cost.