There is also insurance for stocks, called put options.
So either way, you can control the risk of stocks falling down by doing a married put strategy.

For monthly cashflow like in real estate, im using covered call for my stock portfolio.

For leverage, you can never borrow from the BANK to purchase stocks as banks DONT know much about stocks. The best institution to borrow then is your BROKER.

There are some disadvantage i see also from real estate investing.

Liquidity – i need to find the right buyer that will agree on my price to exit the RE deal, otherwise I’m tied with the property which may add to original cost in acquiring the property.

Effort – visit personally or outsource the due diligence to inspect 100 properties to probably get 10 good deal properties and have 1 property to deal with bank. From an OFW like me, this is not suitable setup.

Team – you need to build a good team from angel investors, lawyer, accountant, inspector, labourer to construct a RE deal

Diversification – even for a modest investment (200K) for just a SINGLE property is still a big money for an ordinary Pinoy.
For sure your strategy is acquiring undervalue property that’s why you go for foreclose property. Similarly, in stocks, using undervalue investing strategy, four stocks from different industry (using 200k) can be acquired and do cashflow strategy.