The ultra wealthy can establish family offices and employ experts to advise them where to place capital. 

For example, i spoke of AAA Strategy I devised and coined, it's ultra specific down to the exact age, type, area setting for property and the specific demographics of tenancy, so to "find" where those are becomes rather easy because the strategy is so well defined. 

Ideally everyone should invest in their back yard, but if you live in one of the ultra high value metros and you have no choice, pick one city, learn it, build good relationships and narrow the knowledge gap between local and OOS as much as you can!

COVID kills the dying and ultra-expensive higher ed. in the US was starting to crack over the last couple years and COVID simply broke it. 

In my market the pricing tolls don’t accurately account for the differences in weekend vs weekday pricing or the differences between a two week ultra high demand fall foliage season.

In your 40's you want to be ultra successful at the chosen profession or business.

I like Behr self priming Swiss Coffee, sold at HomeDepot... premixed, always in stock, always very consistent from one bucket to the next for touch ups and does not fail when properly applied.edit: missed the part about not white enough...use Ultra Pure White by same manufacture...premixed...always better to go premixed, as I find it most consistent from one batch to the next, so touch ups are less noticeable

Walmart has the Philips Roku TV 65" 4k Ultra HD for $298.So Phillips isn't the brand it used to be but then make a decent TV.

And then you have the ultra luxury segement, large SF's and penthouse suites, mostly $3,000 to $6,000 - occasionally we see something above that, typically listed on MLS by a broker.You can study rents on Zillow and on the websites of larger appartment complexes.

People locked in ultra-low rates a couple years ago and now aren't selling because they would pay a much higher rate > higher monthly payment > and have to downsize.