I allow pets and charge a pet rent of $35 a month, its nice bit of extra money and pet owners tend to stay longer as tenants.

These are the top three features I always keep in mind when evaluating a potential property:1️⃣ Location Matters: Properties near attractions, with great walkability, or offering something unique—like a waterfront or mountain view—tend to perform better.

Three and four units properties tend to be slightly more investor facing, but there are still a lot of regular buyers that pick up three and four units as well.

The graph is always up and to the right.Am I nuts? 

Higher-quality areas attract tenants who are more reliable and tend to take better care of the property.

Memphis has a pretty affordable housing market and tends to offer solid rental yields, which might align well with your goals.Let me know if you need any more info or want to chat further about this.

Maturities tend to be 3, 5, 7, or 10 years. 

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.

Tenants in Brooklyn tend to stay a minimum of 4-5 years in NYC due to high costs of moving.  

-----I am curious about the general feelings out there because I can be a bit hypervigilant, and posts like these drive me nuts.