My parents sold their house when I moved out and they now live with me...empty nest did not last long lol... 

There is a birds nest on the outside of one of the closed windows (between the glass and the screen) and we saw a squirrel run into the house from one of the open windows.

Go with SDIRA LLC but large upfront cost will eat either nest egg/emergency fund/or cc charge. 

And that's happening all over the Bay Area as more and more millennials are finally swiping right on Tinder and matching with their soulmate :-P They shack up, sleep in the same bed, one thing leads to another and presto... you've got children.When that happens, baby momma wants a home to nest in, and doesn't care about being in the city core close to the hip Thai-Mexican fusion restaurant.

Simply paying all cash may be safe, but it may not always provide you with the nest return on your capital.Happy investing and may all your deals be profitable!

It's actually very difficult to grow your investment in stocks unless you enter when the market is at a low point so that you can weather the losing years with profit instead of your nest egg.

@Marian Smith plus, you are getting close to the holidays if you end having to go through the whole eviction thing in October, not the nest time of year for a vacancy.

If you track the appreciation over time, that'll give you a good benchmark with which to compare your real estate returns, and it'll also increase your nest egg for when you're ready to buy real estate. 

This way I'll have "vacation homes" I can nest in.

It is quite possible, if you buy right, that income from the properties could assist in your travel costs, whereas once you have gone through your "nest egg" it will be gone.