Reference source
Clever Real Estate
Residential Real Estate Investing in 2024: More Rent Money, More Rental Problems
Cited in 2 Likelier entries (1 risk, 1 decision).
Used in 2 entries
For each citing entry, the verbatim excerpt and Likelier's calculation notes (how the source's number was converted to the lifetime-probability framing) are shown below. Click through to read the full claim ledger.
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Among 764 US residential real estate investors: 56% have had to evict a tenant at some point; 51% have dealt with bad tenants; 52% had tenants significantly damage a property; 61% still track down missed rent every month; 90% have lost money on an investment; 40% wish they never started
“"More than half of respondents (56%) have had to evict a tenant at some point [...] more than half saying they've dealt with bad tenants (51%) [...] had tenants significantly damage a property (52%) [...] 61% of landlords say they still have to track down missed rent payments every month [...] Nearly all real estate investors (90%) say they've lost money on an investment at some point [...] 40% say they wish they'd never started investing in real estate."”
Calculation notes
Survey of 764 US residential real estate investors, fielded May 18–June 9, 2024. The native/normalized point (0.56) is the reported eviction-ever rate, used as the single best-measured marker of a serious bad-tenant event. The 51% bad-tenant and 52% severe-damage figures independently land near half, corroborating "about half of rental owners have hit a serious tenant problem." Rates are not added together (they overlap). Sample skews toward active, heavily-invested owners, which informs the downward uncertainty bound for casual single-unit landlords.
Source date: 2024-07-01 · Accessed: 2026-07-09
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40% of residential real estate investors wish they'd never started investing in real estate; 87% have regrets about their investment decisions; 56% have had to evict a tenant
“"40% say they wish they'd never started investing in real estate [...] 87% [...] have regrets about their investment decisions [...] More than half of respondents (56%) have had to evict a tenant at some point." — survey of 764 US residential real estate investors, fielded May 18–June 9, 2024.”
Calculation notes
The 40% "wish they'd never started" figure is used as the regret proxy for the keep-and-rent side. The broader 87% "have regrets" figure is not used as the headline because it spans market and financial regrets, not the decision to become a landlord specifically. Sample skews toward active, heavily-invested owners (90% had lost money on an investment).
Source date: 2024-07-01 · Accessed: 2026-07-09
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