The consistent themes seem to be --1.

At the time, we were in the middle of a lengthy, stressful, and expensive immigration process as well as planning a destination wedding and midterms at the school he was teaching at.  

The theme in the posts I am reading is that knowing the nuances of your rental market is vital.

There’s definitely a market to get into private ownership of golf courses particularly if you can turn them into destinations for events and weddings to boost after hours revenue and build up your tournament schedule.The new buyers of our town course have set a 5 year plan for generating more business, attracting more tournaments, and hosting more small events by having a functional restaurant with good food for the first time in years.

My parents set us up with our first investment buy/hold as a wedding gift, and that is when my journey started at 24.  

The one common theme we keep finding is savings (of course), investing (duh.), and flipping real estate (...whaa?).

@Shiva Bhaskar - I understand where you are coming from on the house as an investment theme, but I have to somewhat disagree. 

STR's near the theme parks and military bases tend to do well, especially with pools.

This property is versitile in that you can also have agriculture profits, host site events (weddings, retreats, etc) and build another house on the property. 

I've been working as an estate property manager, and made a great income while I was managing vacation rentals, events and weddings!