Other disadvantages of traditional RE investments included more volatility, worse liquidity and limited opportunity to diversify the investment portfolio.Current property crowdfunding platforms try to solve all these problems because now investors are able to pool their money with other investors, thus considerably reducing the needed amount of investment and diversifying their portfolio.

Because those people who kept getting information often kept moving their money around and couldn't handle the fluctuation so they kept throwing their money into the safer one or that one that had less fluctuations.After all was said and done the riskier one(B) performed better but just had more volatility in the middle.

Jono I would be more worried about the volatility vegas typically has during up and down markets than the water supply.

It's best to keep business and pleasure separate, especially in a volatile business like real estate.

Completely understood that this is a higher volatility investment than buying a nice 3/1 in Richfield/SLP/Bloomington and it would require the investor to be aggressive in bank negotiations, tolerate longer vacancies and/or higher maintenance/legal expenses, but the potential return seems to cover the additional risk.As an aside - I don't disagree with you about the potential risks at all, just trying to identify some potentially creative niches in the market.

As SE, we can earn 50k in one month, but 2k for the next 4, in short, a 1099 income is too volatile.

But I think that SF properties don't have the volatility that other markets face (i.e.

My husband and I are learning everything we can about passive income, one thing about the real estate attracts us the most is the less volatility and historically increased growth.

Silver is more volatile but trades in similar fashion. 

The above mix should be able to withdraw passively 4.5 -5% annually because the assets are uncorrelated and have less volatility than just stocks and bonds alone.