Either type of policy works for this, but if you truly want the best performing private bank, an IUL is going to outperform a similarly designed whole life. 

Some syndications will outperform some direct investments. 

Obviously the lower the price the higher the ROI and cash flow may seem on paper but in all reality the more expensive home with less cash flow and ROI will out perform them almost every time. 

Low housing inventory is a continuing constraint on sales:Brandy Guthrie, 2017 President of the Austin Board of REALTORS­® commented, “The Austin-Round Rock housing market continues to slightly outperform last year’s home sales activity, keeping 2017 on-pace for another record year for home sales.

@Kristen Silva STR in the right area will outperform a LTR multi family any day but they are not mutually exclusive.

There's no sense in trying to tackle the 15%...you'll bleed out.Good real estate data can be found from a good Realtor in your area who is willing to help you study areas where the market is outperforming the rest.

I do not diversify, I invest heavily in asset classes that are outperforming the average.  

Don't try to guess at individual stocks or let someone convince you that their mutual fund outperforms the market.

Imagine if that $530 a month was instead going towards paying down your mortgage or, even better, cash flow that you are putting in your pocket every month.For that reason, it tends to make sense to take the equity you’ve built in a condo/townhome and reposition it in a multi-family property.That $140k equity Is more than enough to get a multi unit in SD that will outperform just about any condo/townhome.

Stocks and other investments are ok, but active RE investing should out perform passive stock investing all day long.