You can influence your investment's performance through property improvements, rent adjustments, and savvy management... something you can't quite do with an annuity tied to obscure indexes.An Individual Retirement Account (IRA), particularly a Self-Directed IRA, can be used to invest in real estate and employ leverage to potentially enhance returns.

Quality renters are responsible pet owners who will not allow their animals to destroy a home or take responsibility if something happens.

When attending the various sessions, I learned many individuals started their journey with house hacking.

While I agree with what Noah shared about the individual with millions in the bank being able to make the $10K risky investment without a poor outcome impacting them, the capital raisers are not going to the investors with millions in the bank.

Of course, responsible landlords budget for regular maintenance and repairs.

They demonstrate reliability, responsibility, and a respectful attitude toward the property.

Also, It can’t be subdivided and the duplexes won’t be able to be sold off individually.

I've researched that some individuals will build, put the build in a 30-year mortgage with a bank, pull out the equity and repeat the process in another build.

Last week I was chatting at a party with a State Farm agent (not my local agent) who clued me in that State Farm will write commercial policies for STRs, including SFH owned by an individual or trust. 

Why not invest in a fund or syndication vs. a single individual?