Fun Fact:  if you take a purely hypothetical 'break even' property at 100k with 20% down, where the rents equal the mortgage plus expenses, and assume that rents rise at the same level as inflation then after the first year your break even property will start to turn a small profit since rent went up, and while your expenses went up, they did not go up as fast because your biggest expense (debt service) stays constant. 

yelp review I'm mostly from the tenants. half of them are purely emotional but  half of them are pretty factual and leaving me with the feeling that my p.m. company Can turn a good tenant into bed Tenant.  

My purely anecdotal experience over the past...I don't know...6-12 months...is that there are a lot of multi-unit properties that are going on the market and then being taken off the market after 90-120 days. 

Or is it a pure rental?

It has never failed me yet but one must a bit careful with this stuff as it is pure lye (won't hurt pipes but it does smoke when boiling water is poured over it so don't breath the stuff in).Gail

Returns will be much lower than other alternatives, but purely passive and likely less risk than the stock market.

You have a little more leeway with the numbers as a house hack rather than pure investment property.

Of course, there are other numbers to take into account if you want to get more precise, like appreciation/depreciation, plus the opportunity cost of the dead equity....but to say owning a house is purely a liability isn't totally accurate. 

One problem with commodities is that they are a bit of a gamble because the price is based purely on demand and supply and demand often changes suddenly as investor sentiment changes.The stock of a good company with good financials and good growth prospects is much easier to value because it is based on the cash flows that the company will generate.

Now it was a lower end product and not a resort destination, but I didn't like it from a pure investment standpoint.