I feel like I could be pretty resilient from investing in the stock market for a few years but I guess I will never know if a bad deal would permanently scare me off or not since I've never owned a home before.Do you think rather than finding an amazing deal it would suffice for now simply to find something that could reduce what I would be spending on rent somewhere and then continue to search for good deals?

So far I have  real estate mutual funds, REITS, stocks, and Fundrise.

In general I agree that you shouldn't take a essentially risky investment and make it just for the tax benefits but some of these opportunities zones are in up-and-coming areas where you might want to invest anyway and if you're trying to decide between investing in an area that's up and coming in in an opportunity Zone and one that's up and coming and not in an opportunity Zone it would be crazy not to choose the one that's in the opportunity Zone particularly if you have some capital gains that you want to defer. the major benefit of opportunities on is that you can take capital gains from any investment class capital gains from a stock sale for example and use them to buy a business or real estate in an opportunity Zone provided you follow the rules and put it into an opportunity Zone fund and all that and then you can defer those games for up to 10 years but even more important part is if you do defer them for 10 years any games that you gained from the investment in the opportunity zone are 100% tax free.

Mitigating risk within, CMBS & Tax Oriented Investments(Structured Housing,Direct Affordable Housing) Finances: I recently made a good amount of money in the stock market 1/4 Million----- Intentions: I've had a deep passion for Real Estate for a long time.

Mitigating risk within, CMBS & Tax Oriented Investments(Structured Housing,Direct Affordable Housing) Finances: I recently made a good amount of money in the stock market 1/4 Million----- Intentions: I've had a deep passion for Real Estate for a long time.

Alot of the housing stock on 60628 is frame homes so that makes a difference too.   

Wanted to liquidate all of his fathers assets immediately, already sold all of his stocks, cars, etc and this was one of the last to go

Bend is a good place to purchase for many reasons, including restrictions on growth of the housing stock in the area. 

The stock market has been stagnant this year.

heynot sure if this is the correct sub-forum but i'l give it a go. planning on buying a property, long term rental, all cash. now, say i have around 500$ coming in to my account every month (this is in theory, after all expenses are paid and taking into account vacancy, small repairs, capex etc'). current plan is buy a property every once a while (at least every 2 years, could be less once mortgages will be an option for me, non us citizen starting to invest here. talking about properties in the range of 60-80k). letting the money sit in the account until i buy my next property does not seem optimal to me, but on the other hand investing it in the stock market or something like that does not sound good either because i will need that money in a short period. perhaps i'm overthinking it but i'm trying to see i'm leaving any money on the floor so to speak :)what do people around here do?