I think This goes back to when Robert Kiyosaki started using the term Little chicken effect, (based on the movie little chicken)   IT always has happen, it will always happen ..

I guess I am too chicken s**t to learn/risk REI passive investments. 

I bought it when I first started out, and it gave me a great framework of forms, procedures, etc to make it feel like I was running a business and not running around like a chicken with my head cut off (you still will, but you'll look better doing it!).

RentPlus property will go up 20 % if it were in Phoenix every year.( Can't buy a third of a chicken coop for that in Phoenix)  !!

@Cameron TopeBut doesn't it just become a chicken and egg scenario?

This area has some of the worst dirt in Dallas and many homes in this area had some of the first foundations that I call the chicken wire foundations.   

It's not a chicken or egg argument, there's clear cause and effect here.Allowing them to pitch tents on sidewalks, park wherever they'd like and live there, or live under overpasses isn't compassionate or effective (I realize you're talking about a different subset of homeless, but let's be honest. 

Chicken Tender Subs....

The question is the chicken or the egg as you have aptly pointed out.  

Okay, so what my husband and I want to do with our rental property when it sells is buy a small livestock hobby farm consisting of chickens/goats and a dog kenneling, and or a small organic vineyard.