While interesting was not my cup of tea as most of them already have their teams in place and so I did not see that as business opps..

What I really dream about doing is selling tea (like green tea), or some similar entrepreneurial gig.

I would recommend that you keep saving and looking for something more BRRR if that's your cup of tea.

If it is not your cup of tea (because value adds are work), take the extracted $250k and put it in the index fund.  

I love Gardening (Organic), I grow medicinal herbs and make teas, Beekeeping (we just started back after my husband lost his hives several years ago); Nature Photography, Antiquing and Flea Markets (Pre-Covid we were planning to drive around the country going to different flea markets and antique fairs in our vintage Airstream; but those plans are on hold), Tai-Chi (Love it!)

A coffee/tea tray in the kitchen nook with cups and pretty napkins will warm the space, as well as setting a dining table.

In rare situations that can be as simple as slapping some paint and flooring down, but more often now it means developing land, subdividing lots, scrape and build, etc.If that's not your cup of tea, that's okay; the stock market is perfect for passive investors, and returns are quite good.

They might be your cup of tea.

All joking aside I know people do well investing in Cleveland, just not my cup of tea.

We bought our first investment property in December 2017, the numbers were awesome but the building was old and the tenants weren't my cup of tea.