The answer is clearly yes, not to be fair the 2010’s were probably a golden age for re investing, this is an especially tough period, so that gap feels huge, some of this is just a result of the pandemic and subsequent inflation, some of this is by design, the Fed wants to restrict investing and for you to put money into tresuries and cd’s not real estate & stocks.

But I've had a lot of issues with the accuracy of Zillow's estimate in terms of accuracy as it really isn't; in my opinion, structured to predict changes in rent over time or take into consideration any additional amenities or upgrades.

And that rather than trying to purchase one property a year I am probably better off investing one every 2-3 years and keeping a higher percentage of my net worth in the stock market.

I feel like I’m in the perfect position to start investing my money into real estate instead of stocks because it seems like the ROI with stocks is lower than with real estate.I’m close with my brothers and we’re all working and still living with our parents, so we don’t have much expenses.

Taxes on stocks held long enough are treated as capital gains.

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and dump the rest into a brokerage account which holds ETF's invested in essentially total stock market indexes (VTI, VOO etc.).

Timing is important but no one can predict the market.

I took an excel sheet I found online (from "Tactica") and tweaked it a bit to help track and compare different major cities/ different local cities by taking its population growth, labor stats, and rental stats/ multifamily stock to help someone visualize the different places and see where their next investment could be.

While different sponsors, still not really diversifying - it’s like investing in one type of stock company - for example airlines or auto industry.