Just blowing some water la.... it's no big deal.
Passive income. The theory is of course good. But it's not so simple in real life.

Take our MReits. The idea of course is fantastic. What cam go wrong? Buy and hold and receive the dividends forever and ever.
Now the problem or the risk is .... as can be seen in c19 pandemic, how would ever think that holding malls reits could be so risky?
But unfortunately yes. As dividends reduce, the stock falls in share price.
And the problem here is, our price of investment.
If we had invested in the reit at an overly optimistic price, the fall in shares could be greater than the dividends received....
Well, yes, perhaps holding in for many, many year ... it might recover BUT what if it doesn't?
Look at CMMT. Okay, the quality of this REIT is questionable but the dividend yield has ALWAYS been very attractive and sexy....
but as sexy as it was... the dividends had always been reducing... which meant the stock price fell as dividend fell.
Holding this reit for a longer period, such as 7 years... did the investor no good.
End result still same... huge 'paper' losses. (for me paper losses or paper 'gain'... it's real. If you have paper gains, those gains are yours. No one is gonna take a sen away from you, unless of course the stock falls. Yup! Same with paper losses. The shares is only worth what the current traded price. Not a sen more. It doesn't care your cost of investment.)
But of course, the better ones, they probably might recover...
and this is the very problem/issue/risk with passive investment.
It simply takes a long time to prove our investment right or wrong.
Imagine.,.. 7 years.... only to find out your investment idea was right but then your stock selection was wrong.
And then.... yes.... your investment idea was correct, the stock pick was good, spot on but we bought the stock at the wrong price.

and then... of course... as proven now... the stock pick was good, the price of investment wasn't too bad but a sudden deep crisis (like C19) changed the whole business economics of the stock we picked... creating carnage and totally destroying the business fundamentals.
Yup, the theory could be right but our application of the theory might be faulty. How? Wait 7 or 10 years to prove that we are wrong? And what then to our investment? What if it's down 60%? Would we have to stomach to cut the losses?
and here's comes the screwball...........Â
mine is also theory...Â
I could also be wrong..... hahaha........