At the end of the day your cash $6,500 is not that much, so is the risk worth it and can you stomach losing $6,500 worst case scenario?

i dont think i can stomach living with a non paying tenant in a househack.

REITs are offer decent current income if you can stomach the volatility, but are less attractive these days in the midst of covid related uncertainty.It all just depends on how much risk you are willing to accept.

Your going to feel sick to your stomach the first time that you have a $500 furnace repair backed up to a $500 refrigerator replacement and you wipe out a few months of cash flow, but that's normal and its part of being in RE. 

Easier to stomach then a rent increase from my experience. 

I've just got my license as a realtor and when I started training finding prospects to make cold calls it made me sick to my stomach how easy it was to dig up information on property owners like myself unless it's under a living trust with a made-up name. 

I have built a good amount of risk tolerance through life, sport and financial investments, mostly in stocks ( this helped develop that strong stomach). 

In good times I no doubt do not make out as well as some others who have more stomach for risk- but during times like this I rest a little bit easier. 

While those are nice to hear about, they are not the norm and I don't really have the stomach to do that.  

Markets red hot and tough to stomach the prices.