Limping, but not dead yet, and if I'm going down, I'll go down swinging.I WILL BE DAMNED TO HELL before I put this much work into something, and then not get to enjoy the long-term rewards of it.

So, buying good quality REITs now is like buying MAG 7 stocks in March 2020 or March 2009.

I have been learning about real estate investing for the past 2 years but recently I’ve started learning about the power of compound interest in the stock market.

That’s about 12.5 years in the stock market at almost 8%.

If all heirs are dead do you buy it from the county?

Is there a way around this or are my dreams dead because the govt, who wants to fix the housing crisis, will not let a first time homebuyer do something that is perhaps the #1 solution to making housing cheaper in a market like Denver?

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.

I do all my own appreciation analysis from 15 years ago and it's dead accurate. 

Car totaled by falling tree that was dead

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.