If Levittown 4/2 cape style homes are trading at $699K fully renovated (for example) and the home needs ~ $200K in work, you'll know that any asking price above $500K would likely not be worth it. 

For example, do you work in any form of trades?  

Otherwise it will have to be an investment property loan with about a 20-25% downpayment.The trade off with less capital is you have to be more uncomfortable with your living situation while a higher down payment loan product gets you a more comfortable living situation.

. :)Thank you for sharing, that a publicly traded REIT is a syndication, by definition, as is EVERY public company.  

FX, Crypto, Flipping Houses, Sub2, Gold and Silver, Rare Earth Metals, Day Trading, Bernie Madoff, Vending Machines, Car Washes, Amway, any MLM.....whatever the dream of the day is.In all of them, you can make money, you can get rich, but almost always it takes a lot of hard work, blood, sweat, tears, missed holidays, working on weekends, money, risk, stress.

If you've used up your bucket, you can refill your bucket, but there is a trade off.

- and the answer is something like "Well, you don't know that for 100% certain, that's one of the risks, but publicly traded stocks are subject to all kinds of regulations and the scrutiny of public sentiment.

And if I am a publicly traded company – then maybe even my shareholders want me to limit my risk to investment properties.

It can be in appreciation, in trading up in assets, etc.With 50k, it really depends.

Unless you can do that I would start paying off my 401k debt and learn to raise private capital. expansion is good, but you are trading a lot of net worth for cash flow. learn to leverage outside capital so you're adding to equities rather than shuffling them.