Author: Brett Owens, Contrarian Outlook

Throw these rock-solid income plays together in their own little “mini-portfolio” and you’ve got an average yield of 7.6%—enough to hand you $40,000 of yearly income on a $525,000 upfront investment.

Now is not the time to flee from stocks…

Now is the time to strike — and start tapping REITs’ juicy income streams while we wait for their share prices to gap higher. With that in mind, the following five REITs should be at the top of your year-end shopping list.

… whether interest rates take off or freeze in place.

Both of them are riding unstoppable mega trends that should lift their stocks for decades to come. So all we have to do is pocket their fat payouts.