Right now cars impose a lot of costs, externalities on society that car owners themselves are not directly paying for.

The perfect combination is a section 8 tenant with SSI/SSDI and unemployed...we trade safe, clean, and appropriately priced units, for a long term tenant that pays rent on time, every time.In reality, none of us are real estate investors, or landlords, we're housing providers...and as a society, the progress of the most vulnerable is a direct reflection on all of us...and in the US, we're close to the worst in the civilized world at housing people.

I am a big supporter of letting people make their own decisions, but as a society we no longer force accountability on people.

Some are chasing yield and RE has been opened up to vast swaths of ppl since 2008 to the increased financialization of our society.  

And that is that real freedom requires wealth, and in a capitalist society the only people who can attain that are entrepreneurs and investors. 

I highly recommend it as an honorable and value-add-to-society profession.

I inquired at the local historical society, it’s a small town, and was told there had been a fire there in the 50s and the family had rebuilt.

I know we live in a very litigious society, so what are your thoughts on how close you get to your tenants?

That's how societies are supposed to work.

As we all know we live in this society where debt is encouraged and rewarded than people paying down things all at once.