Lots of capital but no time. How would you invest in real estate?

[Erik Johnson]

Hi BP, and thanks for a fantastic podcast and community!

I recently sold my company which gave me a lot of capital for investments. I already invest in stock market via ETFs.

However, I really love the idea of buy-to-let as an investment as it both gives yield from rental income, and hopefully appreciation. Additionally, it does not go up and down in the same way the stock market does.

However, I have very limited time. You can't be best at everything, and I would truly prefer to work on my new business instead of spending time on rental units. I realize I can't be great at everything.

I have enough cash to invest into RE that with a fairly good yield (4-5 % net) would cover all my monthly expenses.

Now is the question; how would you invest this? Would you try to find a partner, and in that case how? Would you put it all into REITs? Would you do Fundrise/Crowdstreet?

My main concern with REITs is that they still have the trading risk like the rest of the stock market.

I would probably prefer to invest one part in Fundrise/Roofstock One, and also find a partner to invest directly. I've no idea where to find partners, how to team up and what a usual partnership would look like though.

Would love to hear your thoughts and what you would do!