For the first time I invested in a health care REIT a few months ago, namely Welltower (HCN), and although my cost basis took a little hit, the dividends are high and the company has a good record over the past 15 years. Still, I’m wondering if I could have made a better buy and …

I don’t know about anyone else but REITs and higher safer dividend stocks are looking more appealing by the day. What are your thoughts?

New here. I focus exclusively on swing trading healthcare REITs, altho I used to also use the ex-dividend play on them and did both with virtually any REIT, CEF, AmRoy and CanRoy. Best year was 2004, made 70% on my stock equity. I wrote a quantitative book on hREITs (currently updating it) and am available …

AGNC its a good dividend paying reit some analysts think its a good invesment while others are down on reits in general and point to this stock as an example #StockCard

Ralf Lai: Many “Rumours” that interest rates hike is NOT good for REITs

Tom Handy: Two completely different animals.REITS is like buying a stock and they can invest in different types of property. Real Estate investing has many different options – buy and rent, buy and flip, birddog, wholesale, single family, multifamily, commercial. When owning a property you also get tax benefits up to a certain limit. I …

Thomas Jansen: I already invest in many, paying very good dividends and I just wondered if anyone had any negative views. AGNC, CIM, NLY, CYS, WMC, WSR. CMO and MTGE,

I’ve yet to buy any REITs or REIT ETFs, but the yield is looking very attractive. 3 questions… 1) Do you all who invest in them do so for both a growing income source, as well as for long term appreciation of NAV, or are you mostly in them for the yields only? 2) As …