As for stock manipulation, yeah, I feel sorry for the fool who tries nerfing a banks stock via the measure noted.

They acquire assets, that can be paper assets (notes, stocks, etc.), hard assets (properties, land, etc.), businesses or commodities (gold, silver, oil, etc.).

@Seidy Lasker Wash sale rules apply to stock options if they are deemed "substantially identical" to a security sold at a loss within 30 days, such as options with similar expiration dates or strike prices.

But as many have stated before you can't predict appreciation.  

Once the note is securitized it becomes a stock (or stock equivalent), meaning it's no longer a promissory note because it's converted (hence the convertible note).

When the housing market became seller friendly, I unloaded 5/6 of our long term rental units, paid off our house with that and invested in stocks and mutual funds…completely no fun, right??

With the money from my savings and stocks I have about 100k . 

At the risk of taking flak here, I'm going to say I've seen a lot of super cute stock tank pools that are low-cost options. 

If this is not something you're interested in delving into and learning to a high degree, then investing in publicly traded REITs would be another good option for you, which have historically returned about 13.5 per cent Per year over the past 50 years (1977-present), beating the US stock market by two per cent and even beating private real estate investing by 4 per cent (that's compared with the average real estate investor, not the experts here at Bigger Pockets).

Invest in the stock market2.