The best REITs do two things right: they run their existing properties to get better rental income growth than their neighbors, and they reinvest the cash they pull in, using it to buy or develop properties that generate higher returns than their existing collection of properties do.

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However, what you do not have is a right to be protected from someone who is just doing things better than you are.

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