If you had 400k and wanted to invest in real estate, what would you do? How would you invest it?

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Are you an accredited investor? I would put it into a private real estate fund. I don’t want to deal with broken pipes, pets, wind damage, dead trees, etc. just buy into a private fund. Just as an example one that I’m in owns 6 apartment complexes, they are doing some light remodels and raising rents. Fund has about $100M invested, about $100M in debt and returns about 4% cash now. Idea is to flip each after improving them. 3-5 year time horizon on each. It’s a relatively new fund so right now they are <year on each property but still generating operating cash flow.

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@ED1 yea but that has no appreciation component.
Also, they do doing it by placing your money into other banks… might as well open brokered CDs and get a higher rate and lock it in. Their rate will drop as soon as the fed pivots.

I would find a vacation home that I would want to use myself and find a property where the numbers worked to make me a profit and allow me vacation time at a spot I’d enjoy.

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I’m only 90 min away but I have a solid cleaning/turnover woman and a handyman.

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Find a $800k home and buy it for $400k

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Section 8

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I'd buy about 4 multi-family homes in my area. Leave about 100k in a hysa for repairs and reep the rewards!

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I would buy two condos in cash and get $4k+ per month

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You think the yield on condos is 12%? Where are you looking?

Lend to me with negotiable terms

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MD1 - where did you find and find like that?

Better be safe with public reits if you are gonna go hands off.

Multi-family housing

I would do a few house flips. Build it up to $800k and do new smaller multi family build to rent

Why don’t you just go 4-5x leverage on 2-year T-bills? Isn’t it the same bet with less work?

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