Next up is VEREIT, a net lease real estate investment trust (REIT) that got itself into legal trouble a few years ago. Typically, the net lease business is considered low risk because lessees are responsible for covering most of the costs of the properties they occupy. However, VEREIT was previously known as American Realty Capital Properties, a business built via a series of rapid acquisitions. The pace was frenetic and, eventually, caught up to the company in the form of an accounting error. When news of the issue broke in 2014, the stock crashed, and the dividend was suspended for a couple of quarters. The current 6.5% yield (after the dividend was reinstated at a lower payout level), perhaps understandably, is toward the high end of its peer group. The error, however, led to huge changes in the portfolio and the management team.