@Dawn Brenengen I've narrowed it down to Superior School, FM, Terry Farr and Pan.

If owning a property has a superior return then I considered going that route.

., and then I just look to tap that market with a superior offering.

Lifestyles does not have a magic formula of success, or any great deal flow outside of normal channels, or a pipeline to superior investment opportunities.Paying $500, or $15000, or $50,000 to any "mentor", will not get you close to being able to retire in five years.  

The liquidity of your investment seems far superior.

We have formed an LLC in Wisconsin and are looking for houses in Superior, WI, preferably to buy, rehab and rent, but a flip may be of interest also if the numbers make sense.  

With that said if you find one that will he’s going to jack up the rate on you to make up for not getting his  10 and 10  If he’s a dedicated window contractor his pricing is going to be far superior than what you could ever buy.

What you may find at that time in that the grass is not greener on the other side of the road (i.e. the other markets really are not superior to your market).Good luck

My belief is that real estate will provide superior returns to other asset classes so I choose to allocate my funds there.

They probably have more time to deal with the RE and maybe less investment options.Your 25% to 40% projection is where I would consider RE clearly superior to S&P and worth the effort involved in owning buy n hold RE.