I've done okay with rentals outside of what you'd call hipster liberal areas, but that's in America where such places exist that aren't shitholes. Rural small-to-mid size towns in red state. Cheap to buy and easy to rent if you buy right. The rent isn't that crazy but I don't lose money at all. I've not had to evict but I've heard it's pretty easy in the state. My tenants stay in, pay, and don't trash the place. I fix things that are broken without much complaint and don't run the rent through AI models to extract every little cent. Works fine for me.

Although I may start to sell out if any tenants leave. Not that there's been a lot of issues, just I've built up quite a bit of capital there, maybe I'll try commercial real estate or something. For now, if they keep paying I'm going to leave them be.