Hey Jeff, This is a great question and one we get all the time as we specialize in working with real estate folks, but the size of the portfolio can vary widely. 

Another angle to consider is liquidity and flexibility.

Interesting as there were a couple of posts a year ago after the widely distributed article in the media essentially calling it a STR crash.

Hello, I currently have an empty space (about 12 feet from the property to the sidewalk and 8+ feet wide).

That's why many businesses just close instead of being sold.Real estate investing provides a lot more creative angles than the stock market, but on a conceptual level, nobody would seriously attempt to replace their W2 income in a few years by investing a few thousand dollars in the stock market.

So that information is not country wide it only works in specific states.

Purchase price: $145,000 Cash invested: $15,000 Sale price: $180,000 2017, I tackled my first fix-and-flip—a 2004 double-wide mobile home on over an acre that needed a complete transformation.

They all have "cutting edge" software and "exclusive, and newly developed" systems that nobody in the whole wide world has knowledge of.  

Not really seeing the PR angle either, sorry.

You're looking at this from the wrong angle.