But as @Mike Dymski elegantly put it, if you do proper due diligence (DD) and evaluate (a) the deal sponsor, (b) the market, and (c) the overall offering itself, and all of it fits your preset criteria, then you're making your decision to invest based on the calculated risk. 

Knowing what I do now, I would get into multi units (over 4) as soon as possible.Educate yourself enough so that you can confidently evaluate a property for cash flow.

To passive investors, do you consider this when you’re evaluating an investment?

I am evaluating my mortgage rate to be 6% for a 30 year fixed on the investment property in Jax, Florida. 

Your skills you have is definitely applicable to Real Estate when you are evaluating and analyzing a property before purchasing.

Any investor that asks this question needs to re-evaluate themselves....

Evaluate the applications and choose the applicant most likely to pay and least likely to give you problems.

However, while I'm evaluating properties, I don't want to have my funds tied up so I'm trying to think of the best way to invest funds from my Offshore SDIRA LLC into a brokerage account in order to trade stocks without getting hit with UBIT.

Other onerous provisions are as follows: Increases notice requirements for rental housing providers to renew, nonrenew, terminate a tenancy or increase the rent.Allows judges to stay the execution of an eviction for up to 1 year.Specifies that housing providers may only seek rent in an eviction action, excluding fees, charges and penalties.Prohibits housing providers from recovering attorney’s fees in default judgments.Places limitations on the requirement that the tenant in an eviction action must pay rent into escrow.Strengthens the rights of a tenant in an eviction action to affirmative defenses and counterclaims.Prohibits owners from evaluating an applicant’s prior rental history in the resident screening process.Caps application fees to $20.Caps late fees to $50 or 5 percent, whichever is less.Limits security deposits to 1 month’s rent.NAA is working with the affiliate network to push back against similar policies being proposed around the country.

Chapters 13-16 cover "Market Evaluation", and chapter 15 specifically covers 7 factors such as unemployment, population, job diversity, supply/demand, etc.They more or less read the book, or at least excerpts on some of the show episodes.