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real estate is generally safer than the market but renting it out is a different set of headaches that not a lot of people want to deal with.
Especially if you aren't making any money and instead is just covering a mortgage. Even when we had our slum lord apartment downtown (it was free and clear), it was an extra 2500 bucks a month but dealing with those idiots wasnt worth the 2500 a month to us. Minus the 500 dollar maintenance fee, you're at 2k and then property tax, levies, and other trash made the income marginal for the amount of work required.
Plus we had to pay capital gains on the piece of shit when we sold it. Man it would have been better for us to throw money into her stocks
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