Survived the crash but rents were flat and costs were up so cashflow suffered not to mention a few bad tenants with high turnover costs soured me on residential real estate.I tried alternative investments, some worked some didn't, some turned out to be scams.

The new laws city council keeps coming out with are something to be wary of as they are all anti-landlord. 

It is the same scam run by the black mold people. 

All one needs to do is go into a starbucks and talk to the many baristas with psychology degrees to know that the money was not well spent.Again I want to stress that I am not anti education.

@Doug Martin one major risk you have to worry about is being a key target for scams.

He changed from SR service property management to Sierra Real Estate LLC running the same scam on a whole new group of people.

@Jorge RodriguezI have used Kent’s SMART system in the past and NO it’s not a scam.

Do you think they are targeting out of state investors to try and scam them?

As I have shown, this is just an ignorant statement, although it's the type of thing that is parroted on "anti-bloc" Facebook groups all the time.As for the scamming, Charlie, undoubtedly there is some of that and it has to be stopped no matter who is doing it.

I'd also expect in the coming couple years with the current AG being vehemently anti-marijuana that we will likely see a rise in enforcement of federal law on the issue.