Some might have a strong NNN tenant in place with 10+ years left on the lease, and it might be a big corporation that you can take to court if they ghost on paying their rent, while others might be office suites broken up into small offices on 6-36 month leases with shaky tenants like a nutrition supplement MLM that uses the office for 3x a week rah rah meetings on how to recruit more people into the pyramid scheme, that are immune to law suits b/c you can't squeeze juice out of a rock.

Do most people have hundreds of thousands of $$ just lying around waiting for these things to happen?

@Allison Zittritsch, real estate investing for most people is "active" unless you have gobs of money to deploy.

Most people do 20% down because that is the minimum and you may not cash flow as much, but your  money goes further.

Ideal spend is $400-$650k.Is Southern California just a death trap for ROI and people get rich here with appreciation only?

Go to local Real Estate meetups and learn from people there

I fall into 5 of the categories I described above, which is probably a bit more than most people.

I would love to meet some people with similar interests in the Northern Kentucky area.

The tenants that are currently there are good people who take care of property so not too worried about damages and the price was ideal.

If you must count something, count grams of fiber intake and aim for 50g/day.