I really like the idea of investing into index funds, but am now liking the hands on aspect of real estate.

- The seasonally adjusted purchase index jumped 12% from one week earlier, according to data for the survey ending April 24 and released Wednesday by the Mortgage Bankers Association.- "The ten largest states had increases in purchase activity, which is potentially a sign of the start of an upturn in the pandemic-delayed spring homebuying season," said Joel Kan of the MBA. - Mortgage rates also fell to another record low in the MBA's survey, as the 30-year fixed rate decreased to 3.43%.

Just stick with the word passive.The pros for purchasing a passive investment, not a REIT or some indexed fund bs like some will suggest, but the pros for actually owning a physical property yourself and doing it passively, is the fact that you can get started building a portfolio without having the three prerequisites listed above.  

Hitch your wagon to a Pro, and absorb everything possible from them until your educated enough to set out on your own to replicate those success systems and processes.And remember that a person can only give advice and direction from there own success index.

Performing the same way my TSP is right now in low cost index funds.

Syndications produce enough passive income for me, I tend to avoid the wall st casino (although I do have index funds). 

Collins The convergence you'll see on most of these communities' is that people wise in the way of gold favor Broad-market index fund based investing, as opposed to individual stock investing. 

Even if you put that same money in an index fund, you’ll end up making twice the interest you pay a mortgage.

There has been a lot of construction and prices are very high.In the last few months of turmoil I invested in stocks, indexes and some individual stocks.

If you took the extra money and dumped it into an index fund, you could reasonably expect an average return of 7-9% over the next 15 years.