Almost all of the housing stock is 100+ years old so you're probably never going to see a home that is free of lead paint.

The lady probably in her late 50's, and the stock market just out of two years bearish.

Stocks dipped last week after labor data disappointed.

I've received different advice - on one extreme is sell off all your rentals, take the cash and take the capital gains tax hit and invest in stocks/index funds (not from a RE investor, from people I know who are horrified that I have more than one mortgage), which I won't do.

Advantages: For the lender, it’s predictable cash flow.

However, short of my stock portfolio, which I don’t want to touch as it does well too, I don’t have the cash to buy my first deal.

I feel like I'm in a rat race with my W2 job and trying to find deals in real estate and generate other income (stocks are my current choice). 

And basically anything that rings a bell would be helpful.The reason i am asking about this is i am trying to understand if there is a market need (pain) to make revenue streams more predictable and to insure away such risks.

Having 3-10 paid off rental properties (can be a combination of single family/multifamily properties) depending on you and your families expenses will allow you to have simple, predictable income that is hopefully not too much of a headache. 

Analysts predicted about 160k new jobs, so it's still slightly off compared to experts' best guesses.