QQQI's 16% yield and PFFA's 10% yield both crush the 3 to 5% net returns most landlords collect after taxes, repairs, and vacancy. JEPI offers a 7 to 8% yield at just 0.35% in expenses, backed by $46 billion in assets for unmatched liquidity among covered-call ETFs. The most widely read finance newsletter on Substack isn't published by a bank, it's Doomberg, where 383,000+ readers get the energy and macro analysis the mainstream press misses. 24/7 Wall St. readers save 17% on their first year here.
Owning a rental at the current 90th percentile of the Case-Shiller index means paying peak prices for a stream of tenant checks that arrive net of taxes, insurance, vacancy, and the plumber. Three exchange-traded funds sidestep all of that while paying distributions that dwarf the net yield most landlords actually collect: NEOS Nasdaq-100 High Income ETF (NASDAQ:QQQI), Virtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETF (NYSEARCA:PFFA), and JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (NYSEARCA:JEPI).
Each solves the income problem differently. QQQI writes call options on the Nasdaq-100 for double-digit monthly payouts. PFFA leans into leveraged preferred stock for a fixed-income-style coupon.
JEPI blends low-volatility equities with an options overlay. All three sit well above the 4.7% 10-year Treasury yield, and all three settle monthly rather than on the first of the month, when the tenant remembers. Gross rental yields in most U.S. metros run in the mid-single digits before subtracting property tax, insurance, repairs, capital expenditures, management fees, and periodic vacancy.
Net yield in a typical year is closer to 3% to 5%, and it comes with a mortgage, a phone that rings at midnight, and a home price index reading of 335.1, leaving little room for cheap entry. The three funds below package cash flow into a brokerage account, with liquidity a rental can never match. Before Doomberg published a word, its team spent long careers in heavy industry, private equity, and the hard sciences.
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