Due to there size they have strength in corporate management, financing, SEO, and investment diversification (if they own 50 to 1,000 locations, no one location knocks them out).These are two totally different business models and products.

As is experience with international diversification strategies, investment opportunities and currency plays.Appreciate any guidance you might have!

The trick is diversification so one bad deal doesn’t set you back too much, and finding those mismatches where expected return is greater than risk incurred, in other words positive risk related returns.   

Less time, less risk, more diversification, for the same return.

.), tax strategies, and international diversification strategies is a bonus.The main reason I'm looking for an advisor at this time is to help make managing my money a scientific process rather than an emotional one. 

I considered doing a 1031 into an apartment building, but to be honest, I much prefer passive investing, with same tax benefits, average annualized returns of around 20%, monthly distributions which I can then reinvest into something else, zero tenant/management hassles, and diversification across hundreds of units, to further mitigate vacancy risks.

Rather than diversification, I invested into high tech stocks.

That way you have diversification within a market.  

Also, with about 14% total annual returns, i believe us stocks and reits have delivered better tax treatments and better risk adjusted returns for the past 10 years than remote direct re investments which carry high execution risks, poor diversification and liquidity.  

Our portfolio is pretty much split between the city and Manayunk right now, but we've started to think more about the suburbs as a way to add some additional diversification.