So far I have  real estate mutual funds, REITS, stocks, and Fundrise.

In general I agree that you shouldn't take a essentially risky investment and make it just for the tax benefits but some of these opportunities zones are in up-and-coming areas where you might want to invest anyway and if you're trying to decide between investing in an area that's up and coming in in an opportunity Zone and one that's up and coming and not in an opportunity Zone it would be crazy not to choose the one that's in the opportunity Zone particularly if you have some capital gains that you want to defer. the major benefit of opportunities on is that you can take capital gains from any investment class capital gains from a stock sale for example and use them to buy a business or real estate in an opportunity Zone provided you follow the rules and put it into an opportunity Zone fund and all that and then you can defer those games for up to 10 years but even more important part is if you do defer them for 10 years any games that you gained from the investment in the opportunity zone are 100% tax free.

Mitigating risk within, CMBS & Tax Oriented Investments(Structured Housing,Direct Affordable Housing) Finances: I recently made a good amount of money in the stock market 1/4 Million----- Intentions: I've had a deep passion for Real Estate for a long time.

Mitigating risk within, CMBS & Tax Oriented Investments(Structured Housing,Direct Affordable Housing) Finances: I recently made a good amount of money in the stock market 1/4 Million----- Intentions: I've had a deep passion for Real Estate for a long time.

Alot of the housing stock on 60628 is frame homes so that makes a difference too.   

Wanted to liquidate all of his fathers assets immediately, already sold all of his stocks, cars, etc and this was one of the last to go

Bend is a good place to purchase for many reasons, including restrictions on growth of the housing stock in the area. 

If I buy a property in need of work or improvements my after repair/improvement revenues are fairly predictable because they are based on what that market is generating today for a similar property.

I don't know what happens in this case, but do you guys predict a correction to the housing market in NYC?

The stock market has been stagnant this year.