If you get help and look in the right locations, you can make the numbers work and still enjoy the property with your family.

Looks like it was/is for you too.Im living it and enjoying it.

I use pricelabs on all my listings and have really enjoyed it. 

I personally learned I enjoy local investing in residential properties.

Then buy out my partners on my Costa Rica properties, and just host retreats in Costa Rica, visit my cabins, collect cash flow, and enjoy my wife and kids and travel around visiting friends in my awesome motorhome which I have not purchased yet. great goals.. mine is to buy a nice drift boat and flyfish all over the west and up into BC. trying to figure out do I buy a summer cabin say in Western Montana or Eastern Idado as a home base..

We are both analytical and enjoy working with numbers.  

I didn’t really enjoy any part of being a landlord.

But when it comes to choosing or creating investments that will produce a return along with personal fulfillment or enjoyment, then I say it definitely matters what you invest in and where you invest.  

At some point, the juice isn't worth the squeeze for us and we just want to enjoy life. 

When I look back real estate investing and rehabbing houses is akin to games I enjoyed playing as a child.