Stocked kitchen, wifi, Hot tub, etc?

Take stock of your current credit score and accounts.

Now to all the people that want to criticize the 9% saying i should have just kept it in the stock market and i would have had the same results, not so fast.Now I can 1031 exchange into a property worth triple the value with no cap gains tax. 

Buyer rents it to a dead beat, pockets the cash, doesn't pay the mortgage and boom the foreclosure goes on your name.

ARK 7 can sell stocks within investors after minimum holding period.

@Kyle Atans  or PHX when building stopped dead cold and they deported half the construction workers who happened to be 80% of the tenant base.. same with central CA building stopped  no deportation though :)I just bought in Vegas for semi retirement and tax purposes I kind of like were it sits now.. but no question your timing of that market was impeccable.. !!! 

If you want low, safe returns that are truly passive, invest in the stock market.  

Been hesitant to pull money out of risk free 5% yield + stock market for a rental property but at some point hope to do so when it feels like it makes sense.

REITS and stocks are passive and real estate is active. 

It seems like I need to check further away from the DMV area.My feelings are if you want “cash flow” you should buy a bond (I really like the tips rate right now) there is next to no reason to buy real estate for cash flow, if you are going to buy you should buy with appreciation in mind, which is not to say that’s the route I’d go, I’ve been liquidating properties to put in stocks and money market funds over the last few years and u just did the math and I’ve come out well ahead, but just to say there are arguments for stocks/bonds, there are arguments for levered appreciation, but the cap rates pretty much anywhere aren’t worth it vs an inflation protected bond, especially since a 3/rd of inflation is real estate anywhere, you could get “cash flow” and inflation protection much easier through a tips.