You can Keep it Simple and raise the rent by 4% every year (inflation is historically under 3% so you should make out ok), or you can index to CPI, or you can index to something like military BAH or GSA per diem.The other option is to just do one year leases and renegotiate. 

@Tyler Kowalczik, I am an investor myself who owns Airbnbs, and I also buy BNBs for my clients.I have a lot of success buying for them in Index, Ashford, Skykomish, Barin, Packwood, Glacier, Gold Bar, and other cities.You need to use an agent who is aware of the BNB regulations and restrictions

If you aren’t willing to study, go with REITs, or better yet, a low cost index of REITs, or better still a total market index fund. 

In California, if you do a search by county under, for example, "Case Index Stanislaus County California"   it will show you how to search someone's history for criminal and civil cases.

Even for just one type of loan, each lender has can have their own index and spread.

@Christopher Martingenuinely curious what the appeal is - obviously lending to a trusted partner is one thing, but having to vet individual deals and run the risk of a 100% loss to get a 12% return seems... intense.the crowd funding sites are a non-starter with me - i will either buy actual real estate that i control, or index funds.  

I can get diversification, and know I will average better returns long-term with a REIT index or stock market index fund.

I am also going to required annual increases in rent based on the CPI index, among a few other things.Does anyone have experience with this?

Maxing out retirement accounts, ira, adding to taxable accounts (index funds) for pre-age 59.5 access.

We bought some amount of dividend paying stocks and indexes that help to offset our previous cashflow.