All I Want For Christmas Are A Few Good REITs by Brad Thomas

Summary

I’m recommending REITs to stuff your stockings with this year.
Why wouldn’t I when REITs truly are the gifts that keep on giving?
How can you go wrong giving or getting them for Christmas?
This idea was discussed in more depth with members of my private investing community, iREIT on Alpha. Get started today »

‘Tis that time of year.

The time of year when we buy presents for our loved ones. And, if we’re the nice and helpful sort, it’s the time of year we try to help our loved ones out by suggesting stuff for them to buy for us as well.

Now, buying gifts for little kids can be a lot of fun. If they’re girly girls, you buy them Barbies. Or baby dolls. Or play food sets.

If they’re stereotypical boys, you get them Matchbox cars, or dinosaurs, or perhaps a play tool set.

Or Legos. Legos are awesome no matter the recipient’s gender. In fact, Legos are awesome no matter the recipient’s age.

If you’re buying for a child between two and seven years old, you get them the non-choking-hazard Duplos. If you’re buying for one aged seven to 99 (or older), you get them the original stackable blocks… which you can then build into the intended Death Star, Hogwarts castle, fairy fortress Statue of Liberty, etc.

Oops. I mean they. Which they can then build.

Really, just do an online search for “toys for kids” and see how many of them you want to purchase. For yourself, much less for them.

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Hippopotamuses and Other Clever Christmas Presents

The older your loved ones get, however, the more difficult it can be to find the perfect gift.

There are plenty of generic “I didn’t know what to get you, so I got you this” items out there. You know: perfume or cologne. Perhaps a nose-hair trimmer for your dad.

After all, he really could use one, you argue.

It’s not even that you don’t know these gift-getters well enough to recognize what they’d like. It’s that what they’d like is just way too expensive. Either that or they already have it.

I think that’s the real reason certain Christmas carols came about: a frustration with gift-giving and receiving.

Take “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey’s 1994 classic. Apparently, she co-wrote it, making me think she was done with people asking what to get her.

I mean, let’s face it. Saying something like “Oh, you’re more than enough, sweetie” sounds so much better than, “I have no idea! Quit bugging me!”

And how about “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”? That’s a cry of exasperation too, if I ever heard one… a demand for less clutter and more meaningful things.

Go big or go home, right?

But if that’s your attitude, I’d suggest thinking even further outside the box this year. Hippoptamuses, after all, are “so 1953.” Plus, I’ve heard that, due to the trade war with China, they’re in short supply right now.

For those readers who are prone to point out such things, don’t worry. I do know “hippopotamuses” are native to Africa, not Asia. And that the plural of “hippopotamus” is “hippopotami.”

But even if that weren’t true and I did have my geography and grammar mixed up here, it still wouldn’t make me wrong about the perfect Christmas list below.

For the Man or Woman Who Has Everything

Of course, I’m recommending real estate investment trusts to stuff your stockings with this year. Why wouldn’t I when REITs truly are the gifts that keep on giving?

You buy them, and they literally pay you back through quarterly or monthly dividend checks. The good ones do so every time they’re expected to. And the great ones go a step further by raising their dividends every year.

Moreover, they offer portfolio-smoothing and growing capabilities. As I state on iREITinvestor.com, “REITs have historically provided investors an efficient way to diversify their investments to reduce risk and increase long-term returns.” They normally zig while other assets zag, taming “a diversified portfolio’s overall volatility.”

...Originally Posted On Seeking Alpha

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