., from crypto) by reinvesting the gains into a Qualified Opportunity Fund (QOF) within 180 days.

From what I gather, the turkey operator will by a property at around 100k that needs 50k to get it fixed up.

Who will drive by to see if the lawn is cared for, or if there are three unauthorized dogs in the back yard?

I have been devouring books by Brandon Turner to get a better grasp on a macro view of the theories of real estate investing .

Told them to do a drive by and call me back with an offer :)The person who called you probably just spent $15,000 for mentoring and “education”, and is now in panic that his 250 cold calls have not produced anything .  

Additionally, small loans like you're describing are not looked kindly upon by lenders because they're doing the same amount of work as they would on a $500k loan but for a fraction of the yield.

So it looks like you would need around 4-5 years to get to break even by selling those stocks and paying the tax now. 

It's still possible to BRRRR now, but the deal has to be muuuccchhh better and those are just much harder to find.People are still making it work in real estate though, primarily by getting more creative and often needing to add even more value to make the numbers work.

So often rentals don't have taxable income; and once they do it's still not subject to the payroll taxes paid by W2 wages or on self employed income. 

I wasn’t trying to be long winded, with too much detail, in my initial post but I actually did this method on a fix and flip.