My biggest pet peeve is these “real estate investors” who don’t understand investing in any serious way and so falsely misrepresent renting out a property as “passive income” (how laughable) and list their “investment returns” without any noting of the massive leverage it took to get those returns.
If you buy a house with 5% down and the housing market goes up 50% in 5 years you’re not an investment genius, you just took a risky highly leveraged bet and it paid off (and housing bets at least in America do tend to pay off thanks to the insanity of central-bank-attributable rock bottom interest rates as well as the essentially propagandistic way that Americans are taught to think about real estate)
So not sure if I have a coherent point here but I wish people would (a) actually adjust for inflation when telling their “I bought at X and sold at the 1.5x 4 years later” stories and (b) would also show some awareness of how insanely leveraged people often are on their houses.