100k siting in bank. Considering real estate

[Aaron Carroll]

My wife and i are young dentists. In general we are very conservative. We make a nice combined income and after paying off our school loans and saving for retirement we have amassed a little over 100k in savings. For a whole i have considered venturing into commercial and or residential real estate as investment vehicle and to diversify my portfolio. Most recently i am working with a residential realtor and considerig a single family rental house of under 100k(i would only put 20% down). My wife thinks i am crazy. She tellls me that i alreay work hard enough. Why put more on my plate that is going to return relatively little, she says. I inderstand where she is coming from but I have an itch to invest. What do people think?