Then you may be stuck dealing with occupants that refuse to leave, stolen appliances/fixtures/cabinets, a place that's been trashed, outstanding liens that you weren't aware of, etc.I heard of a young lady that got excited about foreclosures about four years ago.

hey there.. its the most wonderful time of the year.. which means lots of online shopping, packages being delivered and packages being STOLEN..

Assets can be stolen, lost, seized, squandered.

I would find one, buy it, and give it to my kids in 30 years along with a little story about how life has ups and downs and we shouldn't let that push us into a fear induced state of inactivity.Or just buy bitcoin...

Real Estate Meetups, Bitcoin Meetups, House Hack Meetups, Financial Independence Meetups are all good places to start!  

It's not exactly the same thing but it kind of reminds me of someone who wants to get in on the bitcoin money train now, or buy Tesla now.

CR maybe even scores worse in the petty theft category (at least you can leave your flip flops on the beach while swimming at most beaches in Mexico without them being stolen, unlike Costa Rica).

What the numbers don’t tell you is, in our rentals, we had our a/c units stolen twice, and a tenant whom we had to evict threatened my partner’s life.

We know a STR operator who had furniture stolen during a vacancy, so this gives us piece of mind. 

Or fake hedges around the edge.Visual upgrades but nothing that could be stolen or broken by tenants over the years.