If you have a plan B you have already accepted failure for plan A you are just waiting for it to happen.

Depending on how many you go through, heaven help you if you have that, in addition to a major expenditure (i.e HVAC failure, roof) For people with not great cash flow, you wipe out yearly profits every time.

DST's have low returns like 5% and lots of fees, but other syndications like mortgage notes can earn up to 12% out of the gate with no record of failure, thus potentially offsetting that initial tax hit in the long run, but you have to do the math. 

Of course, the risk of failure/underperformance is high.  

Shortcuts create failure.

This loan does not have monthly interest paymentsAfter explaining to them they paid the first year upfront and nothing else they are finally getting it (we think)… My opinion is that what we see is a failure of our school system.  

If you do not take the gold for delivery and have some sort of representative interests in the gold- look up what happened to Iceland during the banking failures.

people get great joy talking doom and gloom and Armageddon.I’ve been in the RE biz since 1978 and been thru several economic and market cycles.Stagflation in the 70s, 17% home loan rates in the early 1980s, the failure of 1/3 of American Savings and Loans in the early 1990s, the dot com boom the dot com bust, the subprime crisis in 2008, Covid………I’m probably forgetting a few.

Our lease has a clause that makes the tenant responsible to report leaks and defects and is responsible for any consequential damages that arise from a failure or delay in reporting.

Or failure?