Your 401k can invest in your flipping business.SDIRA - If you go this route, you'll want to stay out of active businesses due to UBIT and you'll want to go towards purely passive investments such as note investing or rentals. 

As a pure investment, it's not good (due to the negative cash flow factor).

Purely based on the fact that may be similar to yours, but I just did not need to own, and am comfortable living in a one bedroom apartment as my the more expensive properties are being paid down though my renters. 

Purely based on how my dad treats him.

Otherwise the front of the house is a pure single family.You're right, the back deck is a pet project, and would most likely be used less than anticipated.

With no taxes in Panama it’s pure profit.I am currently working on buying a second rental property in Pennsylvania once I am confident in the housing market this year.

@Joe Cassandra true dat, some idea is better than relying purely on historical projections.

Will have to raise some private funds, either as pure debt or equity, in order to get larger & multiple deals done but that amount can still take you a long ways. 

So as a pure investment, the facts that Costa Rica is a beautiful country and a popular tourist destination shouldn't matter if they don't make you any money.2.

This is pure speculation but I'm excited to see where the RE industry is headed post-covid.