$500,000 question

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So I participate in two forums. BP which I must admit is my favorite. Although I mainly just read here and not post. My second is a stock market forum. On the stock market forum there was the question asked last week what to do with $500,000. There was a bunch of responses as you can imagine. Nobody mentioned real estate as one of them. Instead they mentioned how $500,000 in the market properly diversified would net you 5 million over 30 years at a 8 percent return if you reinvested all the dividends.

So this made me think how would the BP nation invest 500,000?

Thought this would be fun. Didn't know if this should be in the real estate strategy category or the rental category.