heynot sure if this is the correct sub-forum but i'l give it a go. planning on buying a property, long term rental, all cash. now, say i have around 500$ coming in to my account every month (this is in theory, after all expenses are paid and taking into account vacancy, small repairs, capex etc'). current plan is buy a property every once a while (at least every 2 years, could be less once mortgages will be an option for me, non us citizen starting to invest here. talking about properties in the range of 60-80k). letting the money sit in the account until i buy my next property does not seem optimal to me, but on the other hand investing it in the stock market or something like that does not sound good either because i will need that money in a short period. perhaps i'm overthinking it but i'm trying to see i'm leaving any money on the floor so to speak :)what do people around here do? 

Real Estate, Stocks, Mutual Funds, REIT, etc.?

Instead of putting 50k in the stock market they can put it into a house where they'll receive 50% cash flow and 50% profit from future sale of house. 

But according to Forbes and other local predictions that by 2050 that there is going to be a million people here in the Treasure Valley.As always we can't predict the future.

There was no predicting how it was going to happen.

Otherwise stock pile cash and risk rates going higher and higher over time.

If so, that makes life easier in terms of predicting cashflow.

Even if you could predict when, and even if you when you were in it, you are missing deals that you could be making...waiting for something that is hard to define until years after it has happened.Here's my tagline at the bottom of all my emails:  "The things that come to those who wait, are the things that are left behind, by those that get there first".

My stock portfolio is risky, my real estate portfolio is conservative.

Stocks have continued to demonstrate extreme volatility and risk.