High Yield REITs Anyone?

cherrybeans Nine times out of 10, I don’t recommend pursuing high-yield dividend stocks. Not when it comes to real estate investment trusts ("REITs") or when it comes to non-REITs. I’m a safety-first kind of guy, and chasing yield alone is the opposite of safety. As I write in REITs for Dummies, sucker yields refer to companies with excessive differences between their stock prices and dividend offerings: “A REIT that yields 10% or higher almost always means (with some exceptions) that investors perceive ...