It shocked me that instead of saying "I don’t know about investing and I want to learn about it" they said "Real Estate won't work since the mortgages are crazy high so profits are not possible and the Stock Market is just a gamble".

I am fine if anyone wants to speculate on appreciation, but buying a property with a negative cash flow (that loses money) in hopes of future appreciation is nothing more than gambling.

This sounds a lot like gambling?

It does not appear to much of a gamble.

Cashflow low, equity high.We bought houses in the US and UK, while we were stationed over there for 16 years, so I did a lot of research, too.  

It's a low price point that I felt I could afford to take a gamble with in order to test the turnkey waters. 

well when you put it that way, makes it seem like I'm gambling, hahaha. 

You can buy for capital appreciation(which is a gamble), buy for cash flow, buy a REIT and play real estate like the stock market.  

(he was an inherited tenant and part of the reason I got the building so cheap)https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tenant-hell-leaves-poo-smeared-17202910https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5315883/Is-VILE-tenant-Buckets-excrement-found.htmlI can't find it now, but the worst one for me was where it was pretty obvious there was some kind of child abuse going on, the one room the kid was in was almost worse than those pictures with locks on the outside of the door to lock the kid in. 

Look at those numbers - way too skinny...If you want to gamble, then go flip some houses.