. - Acreage will continue to be a very hot commodity.

Physical auctions.

I wish someone had told me about this when I bought my first place.I run a Property Management company and would only recommend a property mgr if you are cash positive or physically cannot tend to the property.  

I hire local professionals for inspections and cleaning, but even then, I’ve run into issues where things were missed because I wasn’t physically there.3.Tools: I use software like Tenant Cloud for rent collection and maintenance tracking, but no tool can replace having someone who can physically check on properties.

.), businesses or commodities (gold, silver, oil, etc.).

The owner has purchased a property like any other real estate transaction, and they own the physical property. 

For instance, said property manager manages maintenance issues, problems that arise during bookings, basically anything that needs a physical person at the property, while I manage the rest?

A physical property that has real-world use and value vs. holding stocks and bonds5.

So, if you have 10 units and you are going to pay $1,500 a month and you are working on an active income job, too, this is an easy switch due to the labor mentally and physically (even if it is just phone calls) to get these rentals running as a well-oiled machine.  

At the time, I had just graduated with a physics degree, landed a great job in the Bay Area, and was newly married.