A swing in the technological landscape could wipe all of your investments off the map. Today, with the pension system going the way of the dinosaur and the wildly fluctuating k balances plaguing most of the nation’s working class, there has been a surge of interest in income investing and how you can structure your assets to bring in passive income. Many income investment portfolios have a heavy real estate component because the tangible nature lets those living on an income investing portfolio drive by the property, see that it still exists, and reassure themselves that even if the market has fallen, they still own the deed.