I'm fed up with the stock market, and don't want to own another retail business [ever :)].

I am very skeptical of purchasing property in such a poorly maintained neighborhood, and being an absentee landlord.

The place is gorgeous and well maintained on the outside, but I'm hearing there is some water damage on some of the walls from a roof leak.

I'm higher than that in RE but I'm a bit of a different investor.Let's start by defining something though-you said STOCKS, instead of stocks let's say EQUITIES.

Of course, once you have several properties you will not have the time to do it all yourself.I believe that most people overestimate the time it takes to maintain rentals.

:shock: I don't have the experience in RE that I do in the stock market (there are far more experienced people on this forum than me), but there are just some common sense things here that put up big :protest: no flags to me.

Then in order to maintain a really high "star" rating in a destination resort you'll put more into remodeling and updating than you ever would a "typical" rental.I have two friends that own(ed) places in Vail.

It was long wearing, presented very well (attracted positive comments from the tenants) and easy for the tenant to maintain.

Some REO agents maintain a list of active investors that they notify of new listings, some don't.

The guy made $80k last year just in his stocks. and that just what I know of.