Totally agree with you $1mm investment versus $1mm investment I would rather do stock bonds. 

Dont suppose I'll get it...again, i've never done a real estate deal other than purchasing my house over a decade ago. without experience there's just so much i dont know.networking is a sore spot, i'm just not a people person. thats one reason i look at real estate. since i plan to have any properties managed, i wont have to deal with a lot of people. i imagine you'll scold me for this but whatever. i'm never going to be a people person and thats set in stone. it's something i have to work around not overcome.It seems I always get to the same point with real estate where I take the safe and easy route and leave my $ invested in the stock market. the thing that appeals to me about re, and i'm more focusing on rentals, non b&b, is steady income with an appreciating underlying asset. whereas the market is up and down. i can get totally safe 5% from short term bonds, but i know my principle is withering away from inflation (i dont believe the gubt bogus 3% cpi). with a rental house i could get 5% rental income, and the house will appreciate ~5% a year. that's a huge difference. the other thing i'm somewhat interested in is flips, but same story there, i just dont have the knowledge, and all the reading this forum or watching yt's in the world only gets to the surface as it's all airy generalities.

If you have other income streams that you can personally strengthen it's likely best to focus on those streams while continuing to invest in professionally managed BIG deals!  

Or an alternate strategy if your goal is to have a vacation rental paid for is to buy some sort of investment, STR, buy and hold, stocks, bonds whatever and just dedicate the cashflow from that to renting a place each year. 

LOL at the end most 'immigrant' would move to the place that is friendly and strengthening their neighborhood.

US Treasury bonds looked so bloody attractive above 5%.Would be nice having $10m+ and parking in a 30 year bond and sleeping in till 10am for the rest of the life heheHow do super rich folks go broke...? 

T-Bill rates are what the government pays to get people to buy bonds.

Treasury Bond yield dropped 48 basis points to 4.02 percent.

Unfortunately, the bond market is also sending out warning signals, further exacerbating the economic unease.When bond yields invert, with long-term rates dropping below short-term rates, it often signals a looming recession.

I was sick of sounding like a broken record, talking about broken records.Mortgage rates are determined by trading in the bond market, which take cues from many sources.