This can spread investor risk across many assets, states, and borrower profiles, but some investors find it harder to underwrite since you don't truly know what the fund manager is going to buy.

After you buy many dozens of these nationally you learn which ones are hero's and zero's.If you take 750k of your money to buy cash but you have little experience your risk profile is very high.

It will also dramatically lower my risk profile so that I can relax in retirement. 

@Stephen Dunn fill out your BP profile!

@Raj MukherjeeYou are right in your analysis, Huntsville definitely has better schools and the employer profile is much better as well. 

Your profile says San Francisco which is expensive but there are opportunities in every backyard. 

You can also review my profile and see the types of comments I leave for BP members. 

Your BP profile photo doesn't show a real person.

You can trade yourself, you can hire a financial advisor, but either way if you want to keep your money, you should be watching what your investments are doing, otherwise how would you know if you should be reducing your position in certain stocks, or if your advisor isn't giving you terrible advice.Here's differences between stock index , GP syndication and and VC investments  in term of risk profile in general:Stock index, the risk is shared with people all over the world, including people that's smarter than us (hedge fund manager for example).

@Lily Rodriguez your profile says you're a real estate broker, if that's the case I'm shocked that you post on Zillow and not on the MLS for 2 reasons, one according to the association  rules you're required to list all your properties on the MLS (assuming you joined a association) second Zillow is not our friend, Zillow competes with us and tries to push clients to their Premier agents costing the listing agent half a month rent.Quote from @Lily Rodriguez: Marcus,If you want more exposure you can list it on the MLS, and you will have to pay a fee to the agent that brings you the tenant then you will have to do a credit check and background check yourself for each applicant however for my clients I prefer to list it on Zillow rentals only, because I can manage the applications directly from there and the prospective tenant only pays $35 application fee once and can apply for different properties with the same application fee.