You missed an important item: Depending on how a person does #1 or #2, it could get them: A fast-pass to the "Principles Office" for "bullying" and now there sitting in "detention".... 

Take stock of your current credit score and accounts.

I looked into this at more than one occasion, because Milwaukee has such an old housing stock, everything is 60-120 years old.Most of the new apartments we see are 4 and 5 star developments with very high rents, this allows to offset the high cost of construction a little better.

Her team has been doing an excellent job at managing and growing my portfolio consists of core investments ( stocks & bonds) and satellite investments like gold mines, etc.

The thread addresses a different topic, the Real Estate Professional status, but the same principle applies to the hours in both contexts.

That's why many businesses just close instead of being sold.Real estate investing provides a lot more creative angles than the stock market, but on a conceptual level, nobody would seriously attempt to replace their W2 income in a few years by investing a few thousand dollars in the stock market.

I just want to compare the real estate and stock market investment.

Been hesitant to pull money out of risk free 5% yield + stock market for a rental property but at some point hope to do so when it feels like it makes sense.

Stocked kitchen, wifi, Hot tub, etc?

As for stock manipulation, yeah, I feel sorry for the fool who tries nerfing a banks stock via the measure noted.