Our biggest challenges are 1) tenant friendly (impossible to increase rents to keep pace with market) 2) High price per door 3) Poor rent to price ratio  If your approach is to gamble on appreciation, Metro Vancouver may be a fit, but I've found better overall returns elsewhere.

In our area, the county has a web site and they open up applications every couple of months for about 4-5 days.

Also, all work over $500 (or $600, not exactly sure but can be easily confirmed on Division of Consumer Affairs web site) requires a written contract.

On the other hand,  you have additional expenses (office licensing fee and insurance, signs, web page, office space, secretary, etc.)If you can make as much on your own - and possibly more - then I would tell you to go for it.

I have a good bit of seed capital to work from, the ROI on time invested on flipping one house vs. me just building another successful web property won't be worth the effort to me.

Banking on appreciation is gambling

It started with Rich Dad Poor Dad and then just spider webbed into about 7-8 more real estate books in just a few months.

Part of me wants to turn to my brokerage accounts but that’s essentially a gamble.

I have a lot of free web postings, some paid websites, local penny-saver, website, and bandit signs.

There are other riskier assets that I think should go up but they are far more of a gamble so I am using our retirement money for those.