Now, if you're open to pushing a bit, a small space in downtown can definitely outperform a long-term rental two or three fold.

I love both stocks and real estate but over time my real estate investments have clearly out performed the S&P 500 and Broad Market ETFs I have bought and held. 

In my opinion a successful business will outperform a solid RE asset in a given year (subjective), focus on turning your landscape company into a cash flow machine and push every dollar you don't need into REI to preserve, protect, and grow your wealth as PASSIVELY as possible.After you get to a better balance and have some rentals under your belt fix and flip could be your second business.

One investment which has traditionally been inflation safe and outperformed the market in general is oil and natural gas trusts.

Just curious to see if anyone has found a phrase, color, lay out, size, that has significantly outperformed other signs you have used.

Aside for being correct, they are also equalizing - they apply to you in the same measure as everyone else.The Essene of what we do can be thought of as finding ways outperform the marketplace.

I can make a strong case for investing in San Diego as it has worked well for us and we have been doing it long enough to have been through multiple declining markets.BTW every one of our local RE purchases have out performed everyone of out OOS purchases (we only have had 2 OOS purchases and only still own one of them). 

If you design it right, furnish it right, and take great photos, then it's almost sure to outperform other homes in the immediate area (this is assuming that it is outfitted with modern amenities like power, sewer, water, air conditioning, etc)I've talked with several contractors over the years about doing something similar.

If you get a full selling price value from the refi appraisal and you out perform the pro forma, great, celebrate.  

You may outperform actively managed investments by going passive with a good syndicator-operator.