Sorry I know these are harsh words, but someone needs to say it to you.Your original question... best 9-5 job in RE?

And much as anything RE agents are not going to work on 30k listings who wants that drama.   

Crime and drama higher. 

Why so much drama?

In our example, in year 4 you will have two tax events on the same tax return: a capital gain of $150k plus a catch-up deduction of $35k from the prior 3 years of "suspended" passive losses.Like in fairy tales (such as TV crime dramas), it all gets settled.

SF's harsh rent control laws create all sorts of distortions in the rental marketplace: - As people hoard cheap RC units, that restricts supply to new comers.

(that a post for another day)  Well thank God after a ton of work and months of drama, that included a birth of our baby girl who fortunately came on a Friday night so we could shut down the project for the weekend, we rented out the 3 units to great tenants.  

Dealing with Jerry Springer drama does not fit into the plan

A website is a good starting point, but there is no substitute for real world experience.Don't take this as harsh.

I’m talking about straight up buying a quality NNN, getting your yearly 2% rent increases, no major drama wrt to tenant or the location’s intrinsic value changing due to outliers.