Real life personal storyI lost my index finger in a table saw accident on 6/12/15.

Understood, and my statement stands ... those who do not have hands on experience in REI and don't want to treat real estate as a business will be better served by buying an index fund or an REIT if they want to stay with real estate as an asset class to remain diversified and at least assure themselves an average return.

Could do 2-4 per year.6: Spotlight a Pro Member of the Month and have a quarterly spotlight (recognize them in a special highlight area) or prize (kindle, gift card, free trip to conference, IPad, etc) for most post or best input or something.7: Better Indexing of the Shared Files that would allow for Pro Members.

Look at other investments methods to help that 11k expand faster - maybe index funds (or crypto - yes it's volatile, but over time... wow...)

They look at the historical performance of the a market or an index (like the Dow Jones, S&P 500, Wilshire 1000, etc.), average the annual return over a long period, and subtract typical broker fees.

S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller recently released their National Home Price NSA Index which showed that home prices rose at 5.8% annually in March, representing a 33-month high.

I'm not ruling out "operator error" by any means, but there's a strong chance there's some glitches.The "how-to" has also been challenging as everything is in video format and not indexed, so you have to contact customer service for every question.

If you get very agitated about tenant behavior you should sell and buy an index fund.

My investments in index funds are doing very very well.

I don't have the brains for it (outside of investing in broad market index funds).