It can be a good way to finance a vacation home that you eventually want to live in. There are other more niche cases such as student housing, corporate furnished, Airbnb, etc, that can be interesting, but you need to know the specifics of each case. For ex, in student housing, everything needs to be thought of in terms of durability and security (steel cased doors, durable surfaces). It also pays to be handy - when you turnover an apartment plan on a repaint. You can hire this at $750-$1000 or you can put on your face mask, rent a sprayer, and knock it out. We’ve been lucky not to have extreme maintainable issues but there are usually minor issues that you’d expect to see. In my view, stocks are entirely more liquid and it’s not that difficult to find high yielding companies where you don’t have the complexities of tenant relations, marketing, repairs and fixed expenses like property taxes.