&gt; you have to be a landlord, which puts you on the hook for repairs, finding tenants, and collecting rent or evicting them<p>I imagine that there are companies that do exactly that for you taking percentage of rent you&#x27;d get if you done all that by yourself. I also imagine there are insurances for landlords and&#x2F;or investors. There&#x27;s so much money in this when you approach this as investments (as opposed to not renting your grandfather house because it&#x27;s too much of a bother to clean it out and think about) that I imagine no sane investor lets their property, they just bought to stand empty.