I do wish I'd moved earlier.
I might have made a bit of money

For us, having property and renting out has worked out well so far.
We've had a couple of errant tenants that caused my wife some stress and hair pulling, but she's a very strong feisty and smart lady and got rid of them and installed new ones.

On one of our properties we only bought it to help some family with kids. Now the rent gas actually paid us back the investment.